Icon renaming: links

[Thiago Macieira]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>I am working on icon renaming and have an issue that will probably
>require code to resolve.
>
>We need different icon names in KDE than they do in GNOME and I don't
>think that it is realistic to expect that the spec will be changed to
>accommodate these.
>
>In many cases, this can be solved by using links.  However, if we use
>symbolic links, this will only work on the icon theme that has the
>links.  Is there some way that these links could be placed in a file and
>  used globally on all icon themes?  Or, perhaps there is another method
>which will work.

James, if we need different icon names, does this mean that we're talking 
about icons that are not on the spec?

Or are we parting from the spec on those icons?

In any case, we could have an alias file (per theme) which would lessen 
the duplication of icons in some themes.

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