The misterious case of oxygen-icons

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Aug 16 23:22:46 UTC 2012


On 08/16/2012 06:14 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Do we really have a runtime dependency on oxygen-icons? My limited knowledge
> in the matter is that icon names are standarized thus you can use oxygen-icons
> or AlbertAwesomeImages (aai for friends) and it'll still work.
>
> Can someone with more knowledge confirm or reject?

technically no, but in practical terms yes.

1.  it's used as a fall back icon theme
2.  if not present, many many icons will be missing all over

-- rex


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