A new tier1 for icontheme.rcc handling

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Fri Jan 19 23:48:44 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Hannah von Reth <vonreth at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone.

Hi Hannah,

>
> 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.

While I can't be the maintainer for the framework, to get the ball
rolling may I suggest the name of 'kiconsupport' for the Framework?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannah
>

Cheers,
Ben


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