There's no proper replacement for KIcon

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2014-09-11, 09:33:23, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dijous, 11 de setembre de 2014, a les 08:46:11, Kevin Krammer va 
escriure:

> > The rule to always also install an application icon into Hicolor was meant
> > as an example of a general intent that Hicolor be fully usable.
> > 
> > I don't know the details of the icon spec but my understanding was that
> > "document-open" was a specified standard name.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > Assuming that is the case it would have implied for me that an icon of
> > this
> > name is always present.
> 
> Should be always present in valid themes, yes.
> 
> > If not in the current theme then at least in the fallback Hicolor theme.
> > 
> > Again based on these prior assumptions on the spec, not having that icon
> > in
> > Hicolor would constitute a bug in the Hicolor theme and should be fixed by
> > adding the icon there,no?
> 
> There's no hicolor "theme" per se. Only a bunch of empty folders
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/icon-theme/releases/hicolor-icon-theme-0
> .5.tar.gz

Is there a maintainer for this package?
IMHO the only sensible solution is to make sure that it actually contains the 
icons specified. Without it is rather useless as a specification base line.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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