Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:38 +0200, Kristian Rietveld wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:49:44PM +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote: > [...] >> The concern which I want to raise, and which I already did in my >> previous mail, is the following: "Does updating icons account as a >> break of backward compatibility?". Running a GTK+ application which >> has some custom drawn icons with the new stock icons, might make those >> custom icons look out of place. A GTK+ application which is putting a custom >> drawn "overlay" on a new stock icon might look out of place. And, for >> example Gossip, is using the gtk-justify-left icon as an icon for the >> "View Previous Conversations" menu item -- this might also break with a >> new stock icon which is using a different metaphor to communicate the >> intention of the item to the user. Or is using a stock item for a >> different action as intended seen as a misuse of the API? I am sure >> Gossip is not the only application doing this. > > FWIW, I think its better for everyone if that would be considered a > misuse of the api - I dont think gtk+ makes any gauruntees about > what a "next" or "apply" icon will look like, changing these icons > on a regular basis can even help teach applications to be more > diligent in thier use of the api.
I too consider it to be a misuse, but I think Kris is right, I can imagine a lot of developers are doing the same thing and this would upset them and may cause excess work unnecessarily. If we are being so stringent on API/ABI breakage, how can we just change icon sets so callously? -- Regards, Martyn _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list