icons packages with frameworks

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>
> Oxygen icons used to be part of KDE Applications and it's regeneration
> by the VDG has it moved to Plasma as part of desktop integration, this
> gives us problems with the version numbers going from 15.04 to 5.5 and
> I plan to rename it to oxygen-icons-plasma as a result.
>
> It's been suggested that oxygen-icons and also breeze-icons could be
> released as part of frameworks since they can be used generally with
> any application.
>
> This would give the same problem of version number/name as releasing
> it with Plasma and it would mean a new release every month which may
> well be too much disk space/bandwidth wastage, so I'm not currently in
> favour of it myself, but thought I'd bring up the idea anyway to
> check.

Bandwidth and so forth is really a tooling problem. It's the old
why-release-if-nothing-changed problem. That being said, they get
released pretty much monthly anyway as Plasma has what appears to be a
monthly release, it just switches between stable and pre-release
updates. The problem remains the same.

There is another advantage to moving icons to frameworks though. Icon
development doesn't really have a stable version. e.g. what we saw
right now is that the breeze 5.4 branch is getting pretty much what
icon development is since that is the only way to get icon
improvements and coverage completion to the user. Ultimately this was
why oxygen-icons previously was what was back then kdesupport, a level
below kdelibs even since kdelibs had an implied runtime dependency on
the icons. And this notion does align much more with frameworks than
it does with plasma.

So maybe this wouldn't be such a bad move after all.

HS