Plasma theming: Re-using existing widget SVGs

[Marco Martin]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Ingomar Wesp <ingomar at wesp.name> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quick question regarding theming:
>
> The quicklaunch applet currently uses a KIcon for displaying the arrow that
> triggers/hides its popup, which obviously isn't theme aware and might look bad
> in some themes due to contrast issues.
>
> Since the graphics for a nice extender arrow are already provided for the
> systray widget in [...]runtime/desktoptheme/[...]/widgets/systemtray.svgz,
> referring to them through Plasma::Theme would be easy, but I'm not sure if
> it's such a good idea since it would make the quicklaunch applet depend on
> possible future changes of the systray applet.

nope, themes elements are kept as similar as possible between releases
to ease retrocompatibility.
i'm not sure the systray one would be the best choice as opposed to
the arrows svg, but any ways creating a new svg just for that is a big
no no


Cheers,
Marco Martin