Now Listen plasmoid

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, March 21, 2013 00:00:52 you wrote:
> PlasmaCore.SvgItem {
>   svg: Svg("nocover")
> }

yes, or Svg { source: "nocover" }

> This seems to work, in that it finds content/images/nocover.svgz as
> expected.  However, the effect is exactly the same as my original code,
> which was
> 
> PlasmaCore.SvgItem {
>   svg: plasmoid.file("images/nocover.svgz")
> }

not really the same; this will never fallback to the theme
 
> In other words, it does not allow the theme to override it (instead, the
> theme is the *fallback* for it).  So it does not solve the problem of
> how a plasmoid can provide a default image but allow it to be themed.

that is quite true.

*thinks*

i have a solution for this, though it will require patching ThemeSvg (which is 
private, so no major problems there)...

would it be acceptable to you if we had a images/themed/ directory where you 
could put such SVGs which would be the fallback to the theme?

this would give us the following search path:

$PLASMOID_PACKAGE/images/<name>
$SYSTEM_SVG_THEME_PATH/<name>
$PLASMOID_PACKAGE/images/themed<name>

this could get tripped up if the file path is "themed/myimage.svg" but that 
seems like a stretch .. we could have a completely different directory, such as 
"theme/" .. 

hell, we could even go completely crazy and allow having per-theme SVGs in 
there even, e.g. a search path of:

$PLASMOID_PACKAGE/images/<file>
$SYSTEM_SVG_THEME_PATH/<file>
$PLASMOID_PACKAGE/theme/$SYSTEM_SVG_THEME_NAME/<file>
$PLASMOID_PACKAGE/theme/<file>

thoughts?

(this would all be very, very easy to add to ThemedSvg ..)

p.s. re-adding the plasma-devel list .. apparently i didn't "reply all" at 
some point and this discussed veered off-list.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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