Minutes Monday Plasma Hangout

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 28 July 2014, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2014, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > - Started mechanism to load stuff from Look and Feel packages
> > 
> >   would like comment on https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119451/
> 
> Based on the discussion with David in the hangout, i would still do:
> - the look and feel package provides qml files for some parts of the shell
> - most theme elements (icons, plasma theme, widget style etc) are usually
> provided only referred in a config file
> - if a theme wants to phisically provide something, like a plasma theme,
> icon theme etc, it can, bout would be task of the kcm to either copy or
> make a link of say, the icon theme in the proper directory where an icon
> theme would be expected.
> - or in alternative, the theme could be specified in the config file as a
> full path, so for icons if you are using the "foo" look and feel package,
> you could have in kdeglobals
> 
> [Icons]
> Theme=~/.share/plasma/lookandfeel/foo/icons

comments on that?
furthermore, how would you prefer to use it?
as a standalone library? static in plasma-workspace stuff? in libplasmaquick?
other?


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Marco Martin