[Fwd: [kde-artists] Where to install (new) HiColor icons]

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 12:15, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> On May 31, 2006, at 8:16 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:46:57AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> >>> On Sunday 14 May 2006 21:05, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >>>> r538403 | jriddell | 2006-05-07 13:05:44 -0700 (Sun, 07 May 2006)
> >>>>
> >>>>  | 6 lines Remove hicolour icons. KDE does not ship hicolour
> >>>>
> >>>> icons, they are for third part applications.
> >>>
> >>> Honestly I am confused by the whole icon theme situation. But
> >>> deleting someone else's work (without discussion? although I guess
> >>>  there was discussion?) is never a good thing. Jonathan, we need to
> >>>  find a consenssus on this issue before doing more ping-pong
> >>> commits.
> >>
> >> It has been discussed to death on kde-artists.
> >>
> >>> "Jonathan said KDE will NOT support the HiColor icon theme" seems
> >>> to be simple escalation of the issue;
> >>
> >> I said we don't ship hicolour icons, not that we don't support it.
> >> Hicolour is the fallback icon space and is used by third party
> >> applications so that their icons will always be found no matter
> >> what icon theme is selected by the desktop environment or user.
> >
> > Which is why we need HiColor icons so that if you select an icon theme
> > which doesn't have the needed icon that the icon loader will fall back
> > to HiColor.
>
> please show me the part of the xdg spec that states this.

"Implementations are required to look in the "hicolor" theme if an icon was 
not found in the current theme."

Second paragraph in the section "Directory Layout"

I'm really dumbfounded why this seems to be so difficult to understand by KDE 
artist ppl. This shit has been going on for years now [1], get a clue people.

Cheers,
Waldo

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103641674224845&w=2
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