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

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 18:32, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 01:14 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> > On Thursday 01 June 2006 12:15, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > > On May 31, 2006, at 8:16 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > > 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."
>
> And in a different place of the spec you'll find a reference to the theme
> being talked about:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/icon-theme/releases/hicolor-icon-theme-
>0.5.tar.gz
>
> As you might notice this is a stub. So the spec only requires to have a
> stub installed which makes sense if the respective desktop defaults to a
> different theme already and wants to keep the shipped package lean.

I'm not talking about the desktop, I'm talking about applications. 

> > I'm really dumbfounded why this seems to be so difficult to understand by
> > KDE artist ppl.
>
> Perhaps because you didn't get the spec?

Sure, I'm retarded. Now let's go back to the statement at hand, due to my 
limited mental capabilities I will explain things slowly, bear with me:

[1] "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."

We established that the spec says:

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

So we can hopefully conclude from [2] that the part "if you select an icon 
theme which doesn't have the needed icon that the icon loader will fall back 
to HiColor." in [1] is no longer under discussion.

As for the rest of [1], it seems to me that users of KDE applications would 
appreciate it that when they "select an icon theme which doesn't have the 
needed icon" that they get to see a proper icon instead of a question mark. 
Is that a statement you can agree with?

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation
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