There's no proper replacement for KIcon

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 11 de setembre de 2014, a les 10:57:17, Kevin Krammer va escriure:
> 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?
I have no idea

> 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.

By reading
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
i think they disagree with you as they mention hicolor for icon apps and not 
for general icons.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin