Requirements for KDE inclusion of apps, themes and translations

[Vadim Plessky]

On Friday 22 November 2002 6:43 pm, Rob Kaper wrote:
|  We have mimimum requirements for translations
|  (http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/HEAD/essential.php) and style guides for
| KDE applications.
|
|  I noticed that Crystal is lacking a huge amount of icons, causing a
|  completely inconsistant default KDE look for a lot of applications
|  (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51048). Should we also have a minimum
|  completion requirement for icon themes?

Yes and No, IMO.
While I don't like Crystal, I think it's good idea to include it into KDE.
I am not so confident about making it default, though.

Crystal *would*attract  some new users, and some of them can become 
developers. That's a Good Thing. We could miss those users without including 
Crystal into KDE.

On the other hand, building up icon them is a *huge* work.
For example, I have for my NlueSphere SVG icon theme about 200 icons, this 
means ... about 600 icons to go, if we want to get this theme completed.
Besides, I have consulted with many people about rendering of SVG icons at 
small sizes, and it seems we have no choice but to re-design small icons 
sizes from scratch, or using simplified elements form Big-sized icons [1].
This effectively doubles number of required icons to ... 1600.
I dount you can request from someone to create 1600 icons on his own :-)
Or we should just forget about 16x16 and (may be) 22x22 icons, as there are no 
such issues with 32x32 and bigger icon sizes.

[1] that's what I already did for KMail icons

|
|  Rob

Cheers,
-- 

Vadim Plessky
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