Correct on both counts; this is existing behavior inherited from LJ.

--Azz.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Philip Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:14, Jenny Scott-Thompson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At the moment, uploading a
>> new icon with the same keyword changes the keyword to some random string on
>> the old one. I'd like the new icon to be able to go automatically onto all
>> the old entries with that keyword.
>
> The new icon does go automatically on all the old entries, since the
> entry remembers the keyword you used and not the particular icon.
>
> So if you reassign the keyword to another (existing or just-uploaded)
> icon, then all entries using that keyword will automatically show the
> new icon afterwards.
>
> So your suggestion would only save you deleting the previous icon
> associated with that keyword; the "reassign entries from the old icon
> to the new one" is already in place.
>
> (The opposite thing isn't possible, as far as I know -- changing the
> keyword on an icon, say from "scifi" to "science fiction", and having
> old entries still show the icon. That is, I don't think you can
> globally change all entries and comments that use keyword "A" to now
> use keyword "B", so if you want old entries to keep showing the icon,
> you have to add the keyword as an additional keyword of the icon
> rather than replacing the old keyword.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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