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

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:17:41PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:38:13AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> >>Let's have one theme that is complete, and that's CrystalSVG.
> >>
> >good idea
> >
> Yes but ... (TM).  We should have the default as complete as possible, 
> But we shouldn't install icons from other themes to make it complete.
> 
definitely ... that's sort of implied by the word theme (as opposed to,
say, iconset).

> KDE also has the issue that much of what would normally be called 
> HiColor is installed as KDEClassic and even if you take the intersection 
> of HiColor and KDEClassic, you will still be missing icons that exist in 
> CrystalSVG.  So you also need to add on to the list.  You can either add 
> before HiColor:
> 
> 	... -> KDEClassic -> CrystalSVG -> HiColor
> 
> or (my preference) after HiColor:
> 
> 	... -> HiColor -> KDEClassic -> CrystalSVG
> 
> You would only add these if they weren't already in the search list.
> 
let's extend the inherits key to allow specifying multiple themes. the
first one that is found and was not added yet, would be added:

hicolor: kdeclassic crystalsvg
kdeclassic: hicolor
crystalsvg: hicolor
shinycrystal: crystalsvg
randomother: hicolor

this would lead to sets like:
crystalsvg hicolor kdeclassic
shinycrystal crystalsvg hicolor kdeclassic
kdeclassic hicolor crystalsvg
randomother hicolor kdeclassic crystalsvg

if kdeclassic is not installed, things still look right. i think this is
what we really want. 

it should be noted that scanning more themes means more startup time.
but i think we really need to come up with a blob-like cache anyway.
unfortunately, cache coherence isn't cheap - but then, maybe we needn't
to have a coherent cache at startup: it could be checked in the
background and a signal sent out later if some icons changed.

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