I think Andrew's proposal solves the problems for everyone without the caveats. That's what I would vote for.
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 6:36 AM Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm going to start again, we just had another discussion on IRC and this > is what we seem to have come to, i'm sorry if I repeat something I only > skim read some of the discussion. > > Firstly all non FDO standard icons used in elm/e will be installed into > the hicolor icon theme this means that if users choose to use any FDO > icon theme which doesn't have all the icons enlightenment / elm will > just use the existing fallback mechanisms. > > The configuration dialog will be simplified too two settings (If I got > this right), firstly you will be able to choose a FDO icon theme, > Secondly you will be able to choose if Enlightenment and Elm apps use > the icon set from the enlightenment/elm theme (.edj) or from the current > FDO theme. > > This implementation is simple and straight forward but has a couple of > caveats, Firstly if you would like e to use a different theme to the FDO > theme and the one provided by your current enlightenment theme bad luck > for now you will need to modify your enlightenment theme (This won't be > as bad once we make a way to provide composite themes). Similarly if you > are using a theme that is recolored and you choose to use a FDO icon > theme rather then the one from the .edj you will fall back to blue icons > rather then icons of the color of your theme, there are 2 work arounds > here, import the FDO theme you are using into the .edj file and get e to > use the theme from that or also recolor the Enlightenment-X theme and > get the FDO theme of your choosing to fallback through the recolored > Enlightenment-X. > > Dave has volunteered to do at least the icon related changes and will > aim to do that for efl 1.19, after that point we can look at rewriting > the theme dialog probably as part of e22. > > Cheers > > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
