Reducing icon sets

[David Faure]

On Monday 13 October 2003 22:12, Unai Garro wrote:
> This is a big problem in KDE: the apps don't provide their icons. It's the DE
> that provides them. 

Like they share code in kdelibs, applications also share icons.

> Now, a possible solution: kde should only provide those icons common to most
> apps (mainly actions: back, forward, reload, remove, edit, file,...), and
> mimetypes. The rest, should be the apps' work.

And how does that help? Less shared icons, means more icons per application,
so that's even more icons to draw. Sure, you'll be done with kdelibs faster,
but then?

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Qt/KDE/KOffice developer
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions