A new tier1 for icontheme.rcc handling

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello,

On jeudi 18 janvier 2018 08:45:51 CET Hannah von Reth wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> Only some few of you will be aware of KIconThemes ability to load binary
> icon themes automagically.
> 
> https://cgit.kde.org/kiconthemes.git/tree/src/kicontheme.cpp#n48
> 
> The code looks for a icontheme.rcc and sets it as default theme.
> 
> On Windows and Mac we rely on that code as it is more feasible to
> install that one
> file with an single application installer. This code also ensures that
> the theme path is set,
> which on Linux is done by the qpa.
> 
> The problem with the current solution is that it only allows one single
> theme and is in a tier3
> framework.
> 
> I recently talked to David Faure and we agreed that it would be best to
> put those few line of code into a new
> created tier1 framework, with an explicit call instead of the magical
> loading.
> 
> The explicit call would allow to specify the theme loaded and we  can
> still maintain the current behaviour by putting a call to
> that new framework into KIconThemes.
> 
> Now we need a name for that tier1 framework and ideally someone who
> steps up for the once in a lifetime chance to become
> maintainer of a glorious new tier1 framework.

Thanks for the work on this.

If nobody steps up, I can volunteer to maintain it if people are OK with this. 
The workload should be low ?

I depend on this code for a good windows support. This is important for me.

> Cheers,
> 
> Hannah

Best regards

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Matthieu Gallien