[kde-artists] Icon naming issue

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Friday 27 April 2007 23:49:06 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Do you mean that this should be hard coded, or simply that: "inherits"
> should be set in the: "index.theme" file?

I mean that for now it should be set in index.theme to be changed in the 
future.

Ken