A new tier1 for icontheme.rcc handling

[Matthieu Gallien]

Hello Hannah,

On mercredi 24 janvier 2018 10:32:17 CET Hannah von Reth wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
> 
> On 21/01/2018 21:19, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You would be more than welcome :)

Sorry for my late replay.
Is there already a repository with work going on ?

I would like to work on that because I am trying my best to have feature 
parity for my application on all supported platforms.

Do you have any plans on how work could be organized ?

> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Hannah
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > --
> > Matthieu Gallien
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hannah

Best regards

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Matthieu Gallien