The future of HiColor

[Nathan Olberding]

My understanding is that HiColor is supposed to be a "fallback", not
necessarily a "default." As in, Crystal is the default icon set,
Plastik is the default win-dec / style, and I-don't-know-what is the
default font. Separately, under non-KDE desktops / WMs, there is a
fallback icon set (HiColor, according to freedesktop.org, IIRC).

Also to my understanding, HiColor is supposed to be generic / neutral
/ theme-independant. That way, if you're running GNOME with the
default icon theme, you don't have a bunch of earth-toned, nicely
drop-shadowed, uniform buttons next to a couple of translucent, blue,
hard-edged icons. Currently, on some desktops (mine included, under
Slackware or Kubuntu runnung GNOME or IceWM), there doesn't seem to be
*anything* fulfilling the role of HiColor as KDE apps don't appear to
have icons (GNOME apps under KDE do, however).

This can't look good to people who are new to KDE or *NIX. It's
probably a simple thing we could do to gracefully operate under other
environments. Under KDE, GNOME apps can run with the GTK-Qt engine and
have default icon sets. Under GNOME, KDE apps are drawn with Qt and
have no default icons (and the proposed Crystal theme, while
excellent, wouldn't serve this no-frills role very well).

On 6/17/05, Carlos Leonhard Woelz <carloswoelz at imap-mail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:59:36 -0700, "Nathan Olberding"
> <nathan.olberding at gmail.com> said:
> > How would we decide / who would decide what the default icon theme should
> > be?
> 
> I think the default theme should be whatever thame is the default KDE
> theme for the moment, just because it is the icon theme more likely to
> get maintainence and attention. If someone is not happy with the default
> theme, he (she) should install kdeclassic anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carlos Woelz
> 


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