Bug 163311

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
Friday 13 June 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>So, the result now is that if you run KDE3 applications on KDE4 that you
>are missing a lot of icons.

If our leader tells us that black is white and most of us believe him,
then as far as we are concerned, black is white but the ontology remains
the same.

in the application launcher menu, not the applications themselves. the
solution is to get these kde3 applications in line with the standard which
says that non-generic application logo icons should go into the hi-color
space.

That is not what the current release 0.11 says. It is AJS that is
saying that. But, if KDE accepts the word of our leader than that is
what is true. Actually, you have projected what you think (i.e. no
HiColor theme icons allowed) onto what the icon naming standard actually
says and corrupted the meaning to match what it says. Perhaps you do
not actually understand what it says.

with kde4 apps, we are installing the app icons into hi-color along with our
mimetype icons.

This is a kludge. It works for some cases, but will it work for all
cases. I don't think so. What happens if you are using both GNME and
KDE apps and both GNME and KDE are set to the same icon theme -- that
is, after all, the final outcome of having standard icon names isn't it?

so kde4 apps are doing the Right Thing(tm) and this is supported by the build
system.

KDE4 apps are doing the wrong thin. What is needed is to add to/change
the icon naming spec so that KDE can install a single icon them and not
need to install non-HiColor icons in HiColor.

Note that what the icon naming spec says is that if an app doesn't have
neutral (much better term than unthemed) icons (e.g. HiColor icons) that
it should install whatever icons it has in the HiColor them. What that
means is clear. If an app has icons and no HiColor style icons
that it should install ALL of its icons in HiColor.

This makes a certain amount of sense since it will work in all cases,
but it is not the best solution. The best solution probably still
hasn't been found yet, but we do need to search for it. , we
need to install all of the default theme icons as HiColor because those
are the only icons we have (that is what the standard says). What the
best solution would be is a method that has the same effect but allows
us to install all of the icons as even if there are no
HiColor icons.

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JRT