There's no proper replacement for KIcon

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2014-09-11, 02:06:02, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 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-the
> > > me
> > > -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.

Ok, I'll try to read the spec and ask for clarification on the XDG list.

From my point of view there is little use case of having a fallback if it does 
not allow one to fall back to it.

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