Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 23:21, James Richard Tyrer wrote: Aaron J. Seigo wrote: There *is* KDE GUI configuration in $PREFIX/share/config/. There may also be other information, but it is the GUI information that I am concerned with. please realize that it's more than GUI information in

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 23:30, James Richard Tyrer wrote: Did I miss something? yes: that application-private icons are out of scope. If an app is going to request an icon through the Portland interface library, aren't they going to need to be installed in a standardized location as well.

RE: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Bastian, Waldo
James and I agreed that app-specific icons should be installed to the $XDG_DATA_DIRS/$appname/icons/$theme/... path structure, and that these such paths should be added automatically to the search list by the icon theme implementation. I don't think that applications should be required to install

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:22, Bastian, Waldo wrote: icons into a $XDG_DATA_DIRS location. It's ok to add these locations to the search path ... aside from the performance penalty of having yet more paths to look at? we already look at a rather large number of directories in the icon spec,

Re: File origin metadata

2006-06-29 Thread Claes at work
On 6/29/06, Jamie McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes that stuff is called contextual metadata and is being integrated into Tracker(1). It does not relate to just origin as such because there are other contextual links like attaching a file to an email (IE the opposite of what you suggested

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 00:00 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: I don't see KDE needing to do a bunch of work erm. i do. and i'm going to guess i'm a bit more familiar with the code base? Well, my patch to implement this feature in GTK+ is a grand total of 4 lines of changes. The first of those is

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:23 schrieb Rodney Dawes: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 06:56 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 00:54 schrieb James Richard Tyrer: This probably doesn't make much difference (at least for now) for KDE apps and GNOME apps because they will

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 16:30 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:23 schrieb Rodney Dawes: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 06:56 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 00:54 schrieb James Richard Tyrer: This probably doesn't make much difference (at least

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 01:47 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:22, Bastian, Waldo wrote: icons into a $XDG_DATA_DIRS location. It's ok to add these locations to the search path ... aside from the performance penalty of having yet more paths to look at? we already

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:42 schrieb Rodney Dawes: Then why do we have a specification that says where to put icons at all? Why isn't this all just part of the loader documentation? Because we expect all desktops to show menus and mimetype icons and for those the provided icons have to be

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:09 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:42 schrieb Rodney Dawes: Then why do we have a specification that says where to put icons at all? Why isn't this all just part of the loader documentation? Because we expect all desktops to show menus

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 17:16 schrieb Rodney Dawes: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:09 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:42 schrieb Rodney Dawes: Then why do we have a specification that says where to put icons at all? Why isn't this all just part of the loader

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:39 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 17:16 schrieb Rodney Dawes: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:09 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:42 schrieb Rodney Dawes: Then why do we have a specification that says where to put

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 29 June 2006 08:11, Rodney Dawes wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 00:00 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: I don't see KDE needing to do a bunch of work erm. i do. and i'm going to guess i'm a bit more familiar with the code base? Well, my patch to implement this feature in GTK+ is a

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 29 June 2006 09:16, Rodney Dawes wrote: You (like everyone else seems to be doing) are confusing the term private, with static. For static icons in an app, of course there is no need. Those icons are static and part of the application's data section in the binary, or in a private

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Wednesday 28 June 2006 23:21, James Richard Tyrer wrote: Aaron J. Seigo wrote: There *is* KDE GUI configuration in $PREFIX/share/config/. There may also be other information, but it is the GUI information that I am concerned with. please realize that it's more than

Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, menu icons

2006-06-29 Thread James Richard Tyrer
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:22, Bastian, Waldo wrote: icons into a $XDG_DATA_DIRS location. It's ok to add these locations to the search path ... aside from the performance penalty of having yet more paths to look at? we already look at a rather large number of

Re: File origin metadata

2006-06-29 Thread Pat Suwalski
Claes at work wrote: On 6/28/06, Bastian, Waldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, sounds very useful. I have created a wiki page on extended attributes: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes I have documented current practise, as well as proposed a few new attributes that