[Kmymoney-devel] Fwd: There's no proper replacement for KIcon

[Marko Käning]

Hi guys,

I was following the below discussion on K-F-D and wondered what consequences it
would have to let KMM run without oxygen icons, i.e. solely on hicolor…

Would that be a problem?

Greets,
Marko


[1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2014-September/018962.html


Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Faure <faure at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: There's no proper replacement for KIcon
> Date: 10 Sep 2014 16:38:55 GMT+2
> To: kde-frameworks-devel at kde.org
> Reply-To: kde-frameworks-devel at kde.org
> 
> On Tuesday 09 September 2014 16:25:26 Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> Wouldn't a fourth option be to make sure that hicolor is actually a proper 
>> fallback as specified?
>> 
>> Applications already are more or less required to install their fallbacks
>> in  hicolor, so the shared icons should be there as well, no?
> 
> +1.
> 
> It seems to me that the best solution is to actually use hicolor in the first 
> place, for application icons.
> 
> Possibly with an oxygen or breeze variant as well, but that's the optional 
> part.
> 
> I think we're dealing with a not-well-thought-out migration from years ago 
> when we switched from hicolor to oxygen and just renamed every icon without 
> thinking much about interoperability.
> 
> -- 
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE Frameworks 5
> 
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