[kde-artists] Resolving icon naming conflicts

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 26 May 2008, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> I ask you, "immediate supervisors" (quote JRT) to take a look at this

urg. we're immediate team members, not immediate supervisors =)

> kdelibs? handles icon loading and the technical side of icon fallbacks.

kdelibs really has nothing to say about the names of the icons, just the 
mechanism for loading an icon given an arbitrary name.

> oxygen? is what i work on, but also affects other themes.
> kdebase/runtime? has oxygen just as a "minor" part amongst other large
> pieces of concrete code.

oxygen is a project of the kde artwork project, and it seems that icon naming 
as well would fall within the kde artwork project scope.

as for how to bridge it over to the developers, this is something that affects 
application developers. in one sense it's kind of like writing a library 3rd 
parties depend on: you have to keep compatibility going forward so as not to 
break other people's work that they've already done. so the effort towards 
develpers is probably pretty low, other than to document additions as they 
happen (changes are probably verboten?) and to work with k-c-d members who 
work on KIcon* to keep that infrastructure working.

> So who's responsible for this area?

given how it usually works in kde, this seems fairly obvious to me: the people 
doing the bulk of the work, the people responsible for the design going 
forward, etc. that would seem most naturally to me to currently include Ken, 
Pinheiro and yourself; there are certainly others involved with oxygen, 
artwork and icons, but responsibility lies with those doing and directing the 
work.

in the case of icon naming, as Ken and Pinheiro have also both given you their 
express approval and, indeed, support in this area, it only seems logical that 
you would be the person to take maintainership of the icon naming. doubly so 
since you have been doing the bulk of that work.

and as someone who was involved in that work as well prior to 4.0 (mostly from 
the coding side though), you also have my support.

it sucks to not have a recognized and active maintainer in a project, so if 
you want that role it seems to be yours for the claiming =)

> It also doesn't help that the
> kde artists module doesn't have an official maintainer listed at
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Release_Team#Coordinator_List .

indeed; perhaps you could decide amongst yourselves who that could be and add 
such an entry. note that co-maintainership is fine as well.

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