Review Request 125437: Made new applet icons for all applets

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Sep 29 13:38:27 UTC 2015


On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:26:04 +0200
"kainz.a" <kainz.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-09-28 23:24 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>:
> 
> > On Monday, September 28, 2015 20:33:33 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 September 2015, andreas kainz wrote:
> > > > > On Sept. 28, 2015, 2:29 p.m., Eike Hein wrote:
> > > > > > applets/showActivityManager/package/metadata.desktop, line
> > > > > > 114 <
> > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125437/diff/1/?file=408607#file4086
> > > > > > 0
> > > > > > 7line114>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     The applet icons aren't really part of the icon theme,
> > > > > > but the icon
> > > > > >     spec does say "As a further restriction, all icon names
> > > > > > may
> > only
> > > > > >     contain lowercase letters, numbers, underscore, dash,
> > > > > > or period characters." - maybe we should keep the lowercase
> > > > > > restriction
> > for
> > > > > >     our icon assets? It's not a big deal though.
> > > >
> > > > should I remove the org.kde.? I would prefere icon names like
> > > >
> > > > plasma-showactivitymanager
> > > >
> > > > according to our wiki
> > > >
> > https://github.com/NitruxSA/breeze-icon-theme/wiki/Icon-naming-and-categor
> > > > ization-guidelines-in-Breeze
> > >
> > > fine with me, in that case is perhaps better to have
> > > plasma-applet-showactivitymanager
> > > to be really sure all names won't clash with something else some
> > > day
> >
> > I'd prefer having the plugin name (so keeping the org.kde prefix)
> > also used in
> > the icon name, it's way easier to find the icon programmatically
> > this way (even if we define it in the .desktop file).
> >
> >
> I'd prefere the naming of app specific icons according to our
> guidelines. hope it would work for you too Sebastian. I understand
> that it is difficult to find the right widget name in the plasma
> source code, cause the names are quite different, but this is no icon
> name problem and of course widgets should have the same icon type
> than all other apps.
> 
> plasma-applet-showactivitymanager

Which guidelines? The one hard guideline we have is plugin names. Dots
are OK in icon names according to Eike, so why would we invent yet
another name?
-- 
sebas

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