On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:48 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > Back on topic: Real applications in the wild are absolutely > going to need to install some application-specific icons > for various actions or data that are unique to those apps. > Even if a sizable percentage of those icons are things we > could manage to abstract into generic icons, third-party > developers aren't going to wait around for new releases > just so their applications can function. It's great that > we've finally managed to make progress on standard icon > naming, and I applaud everybody who's been involved with > that effort. But it's important we have a recommendation > for random application-specific icon names.
Then real applications shouuld install those icons into a private data directory. There's no point in installing them into the theme if other applications don't need them. We are trying to create a very large list of icon names that should be used for specific purposes. We are also trying to deprecate some icons, so that we can reduce the number of icons in use throughout the desktop overall. The sheer number of icons we have already, is quite overwhelming to both the user, and to theme developers and artists. Application specific things should go into application specific directories. In that sense, what yelp is currently doing is the right way to do it, if other help browsers aren't going to use them. App icons though fall into two categories. There are icons for standard desktop accessories and utilities. File manager, help browser, calculator, terminal and a few others fall into this category. Then there are app icons which should be branded. Things such as web browsers, mail, calendar, and similar applications, fall into this category. While it probably is not the case that another application will need to use an app's icon as its own, it is the case that other applications will need to display those icons. This is the reason for them being installed to the hicolor theme. The Icon Theme spec is not particularly clear on this subject, but it was designed around the need to have app icons work in the menus properly on both desktops, without copying the icons to a bunch of different places. -- dobey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
