[kde-artists] Icon naming issue (was: KDE/kdesdk)

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Thursday 26 April 2007 21:46:12 Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2007 21:20:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 April 2007, Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > > SVN commit 658018 by jriddell:
> > > >
> > > > Move icons to oxygen namespace
> > >
> > > I'm not really happy with this solution. We move crystal (cr) icons to
> > > the oxygen (ox) namespace. This way we make a mess. Artists have it
> > > harder to see which icons do not work. If the icons are in cr or
> > > highcolor (hi), they can just drop the icon folder and start an
> > > application to see which icons are missing.
> > >
> > > My suggestions to sort out this problem:
> > > * make Oxygen inherit from cr instead of hi (at least for the next
> > > time)
> >
> > and of course, we can easily take this particular action as we get closer
> > to the release. in the meantime having ?s for icons is suitable and helps
> > point out what needs work where.
> >
> > mixing in non-oxy icons into oxy is a exactly what everyone involved has
> > been hoping to avoid so we don't end up with a crystal-like madness of
> > inconsistency.
>
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not make oxygen inherit crystal. Aaron is
> completely correct. In fact, we did this purposely this way. Change will
> only make things more difficult.

To clarify this: oxygen should be set as default and should fallback to the 
monochrome set. This way we can very easily see what needs to be done without 
the backup set influencing our design ideas on oxygen.

Ken
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