Comments on: On app-specific themeable icons http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/ Usability an' that Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:46:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Patrys http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Patrys Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:04:06 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/#comment-506 Apps that install icons to $prefix/share/icons generally adopted the idea of prefixing custom icon names with app name so it's not a bigger problem than conflicting files in $prefix/bin Apps that install icons to $prefix/share/icons generally adopted the idea of prefixing custom icon names with app name so it’s not a bigger problem than conflicting files in $prefix/bin

]]> By: calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/comment-page-1/#comment-505 calum Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:16:21 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/#comment-505 Er, you might think it's *not* a problem :) Er, you might think it’s *not* a problem :)

]]> By: calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/comment-page-1/#comment-504 calum Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:15:46 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/#comment-504 Well, you might think it's a problem, but so far all the affected app and theme maintainers I've mentioned it to have thought it was a bad idea... Our theme maintainer has decided he'd rather install the app-specific icons into the global theme directory for now anyway, so problem solved for this release (until there's an icon name collision, which probably won't be anytime soon...) Well, you might think it’s a problem, but so far all the affected app and theme maintainers I’ve mentioned it to have thought it was a bad idea…

Our theme maintainer has decided he’d rather install the app-specific icons into the global theme directory for now anyway, so problem solved for this release (until there’s an icon name collision, which probably won’t be anytime soon…)

]]> By: Patrys http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Patrys Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:01:08 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/09/19/on-app-specific-themeable-icons/#comment-503 Huh? The application either uses $prefix/share/icons or $prefix/share/$appname/$subdir. It's not something that changes over time or between bugfix releases. If a theme author wants to override the icons he just points his theme to that dir. For apps that keep icons in $prefix/share/icons it's a non-issue if a theme provides icons for an application you don't have. For $prefix/share/$appname just package the app icons into a separate package so that it can depend on the app being installed. Please keep in mind the latter is more often used when the app itself provides more than one set of icons (say one for oxygen, one for gnome and one for hicolor). Huh? The application either uses $prefix/share/icons or $prefix/share/$appname/$subdir. It’s not something that changes over time or between bugfix releases. If a theme author wants to override the icons he just points his theme to that dir. For apps that keep icons in $prefix/share/icons it’s a non-issue if a theme provides icons for an application you don’t have. For $prefix/share/$appname just package the app icons into a separate package so that it can depend on the app being installed. Please keep in mind the latter is more often used when the app itself provides more than one set of icons (say one for oxygen, one for gnome and one for hicolor).

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