Preparing terrain for kio_uiserver

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sun Dec 24 13:28:20 GMT 2006


Robert Knight wrote:
>I understand.  Is it not possible to look up the icon via other means?
> I am just concerned that someone could change the name of an
>application and forget to change the KIO name.  Also in some cases
>there won't be a proper icon for the application, and I think it would
>not look good to show the generic blue gearwheel icon which is
>currently displayed around KDE to indicate an application without a
>custom icon.  Perhaps it would be better not to show an icon at all
>unless one is explicitly set using setJobIcon().

That's why people shouldn't be changing their job icons. They should stick 
to the default, which is the application's name.

Now, if the icon given could not be found (definitely a bug in the 
application), an error message should be printed to stdout using kWarning 
and maybe no icon should be shown.

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