Themeable Small Arrows

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> I'd like to pick up a discussion we had some time before I went on my
> summer hiatus. Basically I wanted to ask about making the themeable
> extender currently shown by the systray applet available to other applets
> that wish to provide similar functionality. IMHO, this would help improve
> visual consistency quite a bit. The original discussion can be found at
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.plasma/12082>. Since systray
> uses arrow icons from its own SVG which should not be used by other
> applets, the suggestion by Martin Marco (if I understood him correctly)
> was to:
> 
> 1.) change the systray applet to use the generic arrows.svg
> 2.) provide smaller arrows in addition to the normal ones in arrows.svg
> 3.) let the theme choose which ones to use based on the available size
> 
> Providing a patch for systray that does (1) is quite trivial.
> However, I don't see how (3) is even possible. How would Plasma::SVG know
> which element from the SVG it should choose?

this works just fine since KDE 4.5
just name the arrow id something like 24-24-arrow-left and it will be 
automatically picked over arrow-left when the size is 24x24

so patch for 1) and copying the systray arrows over the arrows.svgz with the 
proper naming

> 
> In any case: Should I post a patch for (1) for review?

I'm fine with that

-- 
Marco Martin