Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-28 Thread Cyrille Berger
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
  - some application developers don't want to assume that KDE4 shipping those 
  newly added application icons is installed on user machine, so just in any 
  case they ship icons themselves.
 
 Thats a moot point, any KDE app has kdebase/runtime as runtime
 dependency so oxygen icons are _always_ there.

It's moot, because you missed the point :) Lets say application A need icons
cool_icon, which will only be available in KDE4.3, but application A is 
released
before KDE4.3, solution for developers of application A: ship cool_icon and 
(forget to)
remove it when 4.3 is available and becomes a required dependency for 
application A.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-28 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle sabato 28 marzo 2009, Cyrille Berger ha scritto:
 Lets say application A need
 icons cool_icon, which will only be available in KDE4.3, but application
 A is released before KDE4.3, solution for developers of application A: ship
 cool_icon and (forget to) remove it when 4.3 is available and becomes a
 required dependency for application A.

That is perfectly fine, as long as (as written in my other email) the versions 
installed by the application are provided
a) locally in the application datadir
b) in the hicolour namespace
This way, when the icon theme will provide the cool_icon (installed 
globally) needed by the application, it will override (as in runtime loading 
of the icon, not as in file overwriting) the local application version.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-28 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi,

 Exactly, that's actually the reason, why in Gentoo, we get some number of
 duplicated icons causing file collisions that need to be handled. Of
 course, usually after some time, they are eventually removed from those
 packages. Some applications still ship some icons on their own (I could
 give some examples, like digikam, and used to - koffice). The possible
 reasons are:
 - some application developers don't know whether some icon is 
 shipped already with KDE4
 - some application developers don't want to assume that KDE4 shipping those
 newly added application icons is installed on user machine, so just in any
 case they ship icons themselves.

Neither of the two.

The *real* reasons for clashes between an icon installed with an icon theme 
and one installed with an application itself is just one: an application 
polluting the namespace of the global icon theme.
Back to your digikam issue: this was actually an issue because they used to 
install the application icon within the oxygen icon theme... and that same 
icon was put in the trunk version of oxygen.
The *only* sane way to resolve these issues is having applications install 
their icons within the hicolour namespace, with:
- icons for the application (say, the one for representing it, usually in 
the 'apps' category) in the global icon theme 
(usually /usr/share/icons/hicolor)
- other application icons within the local datadir of the application 
($datadir/appname/icons/)
This ensures some things:
- private icons for an applications stay really private
- as hicolour is the low-level denominator for icon themes, if you use any 
icon theme different than oxygen you can actually see application icon in the 
menu (either kde's or gnome's or any other xdg-menu implementation)
- a better version of some icon (either the icon of an application icon or 
some private application one) provided globally in an icon theme 
will override the hicolor one (as expected)

 so that in effect every Oxygen icon create is in kdesupport/oxygen-icons)

... minus icons of applications (ie those in the 'apps' category) for 
applications which have no own hicolor version. As said above, any 
application should carry its own icon with the hicolor icon theme, otherwise 
there will be an happy question mark when being used in non-oxygen contexts 
(eg in a gnome menu).

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-28 Thread Cyrille Berger
On Saturday 28 March 2009, Pino Toscano wrote:
 That is perfectly fine, as long as (as written in my other email) the
 versions installed by the application are provided
 a) locally in the application datadir
 b) in the hicolour namespace
 This way, when the icon theme will provide the cool_icon (installed
 globally) needed by the application, it will override (as in runtime
 loading of the icon, not as in file overwriting) the local application
 version.
That doesn't solve the problem of icons beeing spread everywhere :)

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:00:22 Dirk Mueller wrote:
 On Thursday 19 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
  I talked with Casper (over irc) on what would be needed for releasing
  oxygen icons. Unless I missed something, it's tag, export and upload
  (mail kde- packager ?), and he seemed ready to do it himself.

 I'm willing to do the packaging myself, but I need the information where to
 find the oxygen icons for KDE 4.2.2. You're not really telling me that I
 should use the trunk version of oxygen icons, right?

 What is the version number of the oxygen icons? where can I find the
 version that matches KDE 4.2 branch?

Ok, I didn't talk with Casper or Nuno here, so take my word with a grain of 
salt here, but... why not?
It's icons, we shouldn't have any regressions, and we have decided to split 
the release exactly to provide the most fresh icons possible.
But then, I'm not sure if we want to break packaging scripts in a minor 
release.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 27.03.09 10:05:11, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
 On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:00:22 Dirk Mueller wrote:
  On Thursday 19 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
   I talked with Casper (over irc) on what would be needed for releasing
   oxygen icons. Unless I missed something, it's tag, export and upload
   (mail kde- packager ?), and he seemed ready to do it himself.
 
  I'm willing to do the packaging myself, but I need the information where to
  find the oxygen icons for KDE 4.2.2. You're not really telling me that I
  should use the trunk version of oxygen icons, right?
 
  What is the version number of the oxygen icons? where can I find the
  version that matches KDE 4.2 branch?
 
 Ok, I didn't talk with Casper or Nuno here, so take my word with a grain of 
 salt here, but... why not?

Because you're sometimes changing names of icons and that breaks
existing code - unless you backport the code-changes before the release.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday 27 March 2009 10:05:11 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
 On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:00:22 Dirk Mueller wrote:
  On Thursday 19 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
   I talked with Casper (over irc) on what would be needed for releasing
   oxygen icons. Unless I missed something, it's tag, export and upload
   (mail kde- packager ?), and he seemed ready to do it himself.
 
  I'm willing to do the packaging myself, but I need the information where
  to find the oxygen icons for KDE 4.2.2. You're not really telling me that
  I should use the trunk version of oxygen icons, right?
 
  What is the version number of the oxygen icons? where can I find the
  version that matches KDE 4.2 branch?

 Ok, I didn't talk with Casper or Nuno here, so take my word with a grain of
 salt here, but... why not?
 It's icons, we shouldn't have any regressions, and we have decided to split
 the release exactly to provide the most fresh icons possible.
 But then, I'm not sure if we want to break packaging scripts in a minor
 release.

I think removing the icons from branch and shipping them from kdesupport is a 
bad idea. With this kind of structural changes to a stable branch, we're 
making it harder for packagers to ship our updates and bugfixes, they're now 
either stuck with putting the icons back into the old location and ship this, 
or offer the icons as separate package, which creates more work for these poor 
people.

Shipping Oxygen separately might be interesting for third party applications 
to use the icons, the names are standardized and they don't depend on neither 
KDE nor Qt (in fact they depend on being rendered with Inkscape ;)).

We need to consider that Oxygen is part of a stable platform. Even if we fix 
the apps that we ship together with Oxygen, that still means that we might 
screw some third party apps that suddenly loose icons in a x.y.z bugfix and 
translation update.
It's fine to update the Oxygen icons also in a stable cycle, the large 
majority of the updates to Oxygen is probably a 100% safe to backport.

For trunk, we can make these changes, but we need to consider the above points 
just as well. Backwards compatibility is just as important across major cycles 
(4.2 - 4.3) releases.

I don't really see why putting Oxygen into kdesupport would mean that users 
get updates more often. I think it'll work the other way, branch is shipped 
every month, that means improvements to Oxygen can be shipped to the user 
usually in less than four weeks. By putting in them kdesupport (which is less 
visible and might not be updated by packagers along with a x.y.z release) the 
likely effect is that Oxygen is overall updated *less* often.
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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 27 March 2009 23:49:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
 On Friday 27 March 2009 10:05:11 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
  On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:00:22 Dirk Mueller wrote:
   On Thursday 19 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
I talked with Casper (over irc) on what would be needed for releasing
oxygen icons. Unless I missed something, it's tag, export and upload
(mail kde- packager ?), and he seemed ready to do it himself.
  
   I'm willing to do the packaging myself, but I need the information
   where to find the oxygen icons for KDE 4.2.2. You're not really telling
   me that I should use the trunk version of oxygen icons, right?
  
   What is the version number of the oxygen icons? where can I find the
   version that matches KDE 4.2 branch?
 
  Ok, I didn't talk with Casper or Nuno here, so take my word with a grain
  of salt here, but... why not?
  It's icons, we shouldn't have any regressions, and we have decided to
  split the release exactly to provide the most fresh icons possible.
  But then, I'm not sure if we want to break packaging scripts in a minor
  release.

 I think removing the icons from branch and shipping them from kdesupport is
 a bad idea. With this kind of structural changes to a stable branch, we're
 making it harder for packagers to ship our updates and bugfixes, they're
 now either stuck with putting the icons back into the old location and ship
 this, or offer the icons as separate package, which creates more work for
 these poor people.

 Shipping Oxygen separately might be interesting for third party
 applications to use the icons, the names are standardized and they don't
 depend on neither KDE nor Qt (in fact they depend on being rendered with
 Inkscape ;)).

 We need to consider that Oxygen is part of a stable platform. Even if we
 fix the apps that we ship together with Oxygen, that still means that we
 might screw some third party apps that suddenly loose icons in a x.y.z
 bugfix and translation update.
 It's fine to update the Oxygen icons also in a stable cycle, the large
 majority of the updates to Oxygen is probably a 100% safe to backport.

 For trunk, we can make these changes, but we need to consider the above
 points just as well. Backwards compatibility is just as important across
 major cycles (4.2 - 4.3) releases.

 I don't really see why putting Oxygen into kdesupport would mean that users
 get updates more often. I think it'll work the other way, branch is shipped
 every month, that means improvements to Oxygen can be shipped to the user
 usually in less than four weeks. By putting in them kdesupport (which is
 less visible and might not be updated by packagers along with a x.y.z
 release) the likely effect is that Oxygen is overall updated *less* often.


Well my issue is another as nothing to do with the issues so far.

its about control, we are creating a new kde3.x mess couse aplications are 
creating their hown versions of the same icons, and not teling any one they do 
so, couse well they dont have 2.
second i have alrady done a couple of duplicated icons with slightly difrent 
names couse well i forgot i did icon a for app B and icon c for app D and a=c 
just that they dont.
i have no idea of how many icons we have done so far no idea of what apps are 
using couse its out of the oxygen directory its scatered all around kde svn.

this is a solution to that issue, no one came up with a beter one..


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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
A Friday 27 March 2009 23:49:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
  I don't really see why putting Oxygen into kdesupport would mean that
  users get updates more often. I think it'll work the other way, branch is
  shipped every month, that means improvements to Oxygen can be shipped to
  the user usually in less than four weeks. By putting in them kdesupport
  (which is less visible and might not be updated by packagers along with a
  x.y.z release) the likely effect is that Oxygen is overall updated *less*
  often.

I guess it's not the case here, as distributions usually follow weekly 
unstable snapshots as well, so it's very unlikely they will miss Oxygen icons 
release.

On Saturday 28 of March 2009 01:27:58 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
 Well my issue is another as nothing to do with the issues so far.

 its about control, we are creating a new kde3.x mess couse aplications are
 creating their hown versions of the same icons, and not teling any one they
 do so, couse well they dont have 2.
 second i have alrady done a couple of duplicated icons with slightly
 difrent names couse well i forgot i did icon a for app B and icon c for app
 D and a=c just that they dont.
 i have no idea of how many icons we have done so far no idea of what apps
 are using couse its out of the oxygen directory its scatered all around kde
 svn.

Exactly, that's actually the reason, why in Gentoo, we get some number of 
duplicated icons causing file collisions that need to be handled. Of course, 
usually after some time, they are eventually removed from those packages.
Some applications still ship some icons on their own (I could give some 
examples, like digikam, and used to - koffice). The possible reasons are:
- some application developers don't know whether some icon is shipped already 
with KDE4
- some application developers don't want to assume that KDE4 shipping those 
newly added application icons is installed on user machine, so just in any 
case they ship icons themselves.

The idea, of frequent updates to Oxygen icons in kdesupport (and frequent 
releases) - will work and will give this control over icon distribution - 
provided backward compatibility issues with 4.2.x and 4.3.x regarding icons 
are resolved, and provided 3rd party (extragear/plasma and other as well) KDE 
application developers will respect that way of distributing them. (in short, 
any icon missing or report about icon being duplicated - contact Oxygen team 
- icon set updated and released in weekly manner as usual or sth like this - 
so that in effect every Oxygen icon create is in kdesupport/oxygen-icons)

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
A Friday 27 March 2009 23:49:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
 I don't really see why putting Oxygen into kdesupport would mean that
 users get updates more often. I think it'll work the other way, branch
 is shipped every month, that means improvements to Oxygen can be
 shipped to the user usually in less than four weeks. By putting in them
 kdesupport (which is less visible and might not be updated by packagers
 along with a x.y.z release) the likely effect is that Oxygen is overall
 updated *less* often.

And KDE packagers could use the same weekly manner of automatic packaging 
oxygen icons along with unstable (SVN) snapshots (so called 4.2.67 etc)

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:27:58 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
 Well my issue is another as nothing to do with the issues so far.

 its about control, we are creating a new kde3.x mess couse aplications are
 creating their hown versions of the same icons, and not teling any one they
 do so, couse well they dont have 2.

I see. I don't see another solution than to make it easy to ship all icons 
from one canonical source. Maybe we should have a mechanism to download 
missing icons automatically, so Oxygen is shipped as webservice. Or at least 
educating application developers better.
Realistically, there will always be the problem of people not passing their 
modifications up, it's just too easy to change the name and ship it, while 
passing it back upstream is hard.
This doesn't mean that what Oxygen ships should be clean.

Am I assuming correctly that the only regressions caused by icons is when an 
icon gets a different name and needs to be moved?

 second i have alrady done a couple of duplicated icons with slightly
 difrent names couse well i forgot i did icon a for app B and icon c for app
 D and a=c just that they dont.
 i have no idea of how many icons we have done so far no idea of what apps
 are using couse its out of the oxygen directory its scatered all around kde
 svn.

That sucks :/. So to you as icon developer, there should be One Canonical 
Place To Put All Icons...

 this is a solution to that issue, no one came up with a beter one..

Let's try to find a better one then :) I don't see in how far putting icons 
into kdesupport would solve that problem?

Or is the problem the size of Oxygen? I can imagine that you don't want to 
ship every single special application icon in the world in the kdebase 
tarball. In that case, it would make sense to ship it separately. This change 
(which is the point of this discussion) is made already. Still, that's not 
something we should change in a bug fix update as Andreas pointed out as well.
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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Saturday 28 March 2009 00:55:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
 On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:27:58 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
  Well my issue is another as nothing to do with the issues so far.
 
  its about control, we are creating a new kde3.x mess couse aplications
  are creating their hown versions of the same icons, and not teling any
  one they do so, couse well they dont have 2.

 I see. I don't see another solution than to make it easy to ship all icons
 from one canonical source. Maybe we should have a mechanism to download
 missing icons automatically, so Oxygen is shipped as webservice. Or at
 least educating application developers better.
 Realistically, there will always be the problem of people not passing their
 modifications up, it's just too easy to change the name and ship it, while
 passing it back upstream is hard.
 This doesn't mean that what Oxygen ships should be clean.

 Am I assuming correctly that the only regressions caused by icons is when
 an icon gets a different name and needs to be moved?

  second i have alrady done a couple of duplicated icons with slightly
  difrent names couse well i forgot i did icon a for app B and icon c for
  app D and a=c just that they dont.
  i have no idea of how many icons we have done so far no idea of what apps
  are using couse its out of the oxygen directory its scatered all around
  kde svn.

 That sucks :/. So to you as icon developer, there should be One Canonical
 Place To Put All Icons...

yeap

  this is a solution to that issue, no one came up with a beter one..

 Let's try to find a better one then :) I don't see in how far putting icons
 into kdesupport would solve that problem?

the idea was to put every single icon there

 Or is the problem the size of Oxygen? I can imagine that you don't want to
 ship every single special application icon in the world in the kdebase
 tarball. 

yeap in the end it will be quite a large group it allready is and im gessing 
about arround 100 are outside already,


 In that case, it would make sense to ship it separately. This
 change (which is the point of this discussion) is made already. Still,
 that's not something we should change in a bug fix update as Andreas
 pointed out as well.

Realy im fine with anything as long as it works, by working i meen having some 
way of geting a complete overview of the intire icon set, with i dont right 
now, and nor do developers, a developer serching for an specific icon for his 
app as no place to go and look for all of them unless he instales every single 
app out there that ships oxygen icons, and heven if he does he cant be sure 
its realy an oxygen icon or a icon some application developer found some ware 
and put it in his install oxygen directory...

I have no perfect anser for this but I can complain about it I have spoken 
about this to the other icon designers we all agrea that a centralized place 
for all icons is beter...

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 28.03.09 01:47:23, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
 A Friday 27 March 2009 23:49:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
 Some applications still ship some icons on their own (I could give some 
 examples, like digikam, and used to - koffice). The possible reasons are:
 - some application developers don't know whether some icon is shipped already 
 with KDE4

Then they should start to look at the icons in kdebase/runtime (or now
oxygen-icons in kdesupport). An app developer should at least coordinate
these things somewhat with the artists, unless they want to ship their
own iconset.

 - some application developers don't want to assume that KDE4 shipping those 
 newly added application icons is installed on user machine, so just in any 
 case they ship icons themselves.

Thats a moot point, any KDE app has kdebase/runtime as runtime
dependency so oxygen icons are _always_ there.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday 28 March 2009 02:26:26 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
 A Saturday 28 March 2009 00:55:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
 the idea was to put every single icon there

  Or is the problem the size of Oxygen? I can imagine that you don't want
  to ship every single special application icon in the world in the kdebase
  tarball.

 yeap in the end it will be quite a large group it allready is and im
 gessing about arround 100 are outside already,

  In that case, it would make sense to ship it separately. This
  change (which is the point of this discussion) is made already. Still,
  that's not something we should change in a bug fix update as Andreas
  pointed out as well.

 Realy im fine with anything as long as it works, by working i meen having
 some way of geting a complete overview of the intire icon set, with i dont
 right now, and nor do developers, a developer serching for an specific icon
 for his app as no place to go and look for all of them unless he instales
 every single app out there that ships oxygen icons, and heven if he does he
 cant be sure its realy an oxygen icon or a icon some application developer
 found some ware and put it in his install oxygen directory...

That makes sense. So for the future, we'll ship Oxygen separately. That shaves 
of quite some MBs from the kdebase tarball (you mentioned 20K files), makes it 
easier to maintain for you and keep in a sane state for others to work with.

How should those releases be shipped? Is it simply OK to grab a snapshot from 
kdesupport anytime? Otherwise, tags would need to be created for the snapshot 
release revisions.

 I have no perfect anser for this but I can complain about it I have
 spoken about this to the other icon designers we all agrea that a
 centralized place for all icons is beter...

Then the solution to this is to do with KDE 4.2.2 whatever Dirk thinks it's 
sensible (I can imagine that it's really way to late to change this for 
4.2.2.) For trunk we'll keep the separate Oxygen in kdesupport anyway.
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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 28.03.09 01:55:32, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
 On Saturday 28 March 2009 01:27:58 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
  Well my issue is another as nothing to do with the issues so far.
 
  its about control, we are creating a new kde3.x mess couse aplications are
  creating their hown versions of the same icons, and not teling any one they
  do so, couse well they dont have 2.
 
 I see. I don't see another solution than to make it easy to ship all icons 
 from one canonical source. Maybe we should have a mechanism to download 
 missing icons automatically, so Oxygen is shipped as webservice. Or at least 
 educating application developers better.
 Realistically, there will always be the problem of people not passing their 
 modifications up, it's just too easy to change the name and ship it, while 
 passing it back upstream is hard.

Another reason to ship icons with an application is that there's only a
limited amount of artists available and they have only limited time.
In KDevelop we have currently two icons copied from an oxygen icon
(and one coming from KDE3) that we ship, simply because the artists
didn't yet get around to work on the list of icons posted in the wiki
for KDevelop. I'm trying to keep such things out of kdevelop and thats
why there are no icons in the menus for some of the most-used actions,
but in some cases having text is simply not an option (toolbars in
dockwidgets for example).

 Am I assuming correctly that the only regressions caused by icons is when an 
 icon gets a different name and needs to be moved?

Yes in that case we'd either need a copy of the old name still around or
make sure all apps using the icon are updated.
 
  this is a solution to that issue, no one came up with a beter one..
 
 Let's try to find a better one then :) I don't see in how far putting icons 
 into kdesupport would solve that problem?

Yeah, I think the problem is rather that

a) app devs don't know that kdebase/runtime is a dependency for _every_
kde app and they might also not know they should pick icons from there
or request them from the oxygen tema
b) what I said above about limited resources for creating icons

 Or is the problem the size of Oxygen? I can imagine that you don't want to 
 ship every single special application icon in the world in the kdebase 
 tarball.
 In that case, it would make sense to ship it separately.

I don't really see how shipping a huge tarball that all kde apps depend
on outside of kdebase is better than shipping it inside. But I don't
have a good idea how to fix the size of the oxygen dir (in terms of
files) without starting to scatter around app-specific icons to the
applications - which might again lead to duplication and confusion as
Nuno pointed out.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-27 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 28.03.09 01:26:26, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
 A Saturday 28 March 2009 00:55:32, Sebastian Kügler escreveu:
  In that case, it would make sense to ship it separately. This
  change (which is the point of this discussion) is made already. Still,
  that's not something we should change in a bug fix update as Andreas
  pointed out as well.
 
 Realy im fine with anything as long as it works, by working i meen having 
 some 
 way of geting a complete overview of the intire icon set, with i dont right 
 now, and nor do developers,

I can only speak for myself, but I as a developer always use
kdebase/runtime/oxygen to get an overview over icons that I should use
and to find one when I have a certain action.

 a developer serching for an specific icon for his 
 app as no place to go and look for all of them unless he instales every 
 single 
 app out there that ships oxygen icons, and heven if he does he cant be sure 
 its realy an oxygen icon or a icon some application developer found some ware 
 and put it in his install oxygen directory...

Hmm, I'm not a guru in the icon-spec, but shouldn't apps install their
custom icons not into the oxygen directory but rather into the fallback
hicolor or what it is called? At least thats what KDevelop does with
the three custom icons it has and that gives other developers a clear
hint that these icons are not part of the oxygen iconset. (I just see
that we're creating quite some mess actually in kdevelop/pics, I'll try
to fix that tomorrow).

 I have no perfect anser for this but I can complain about it I have 
 spoken 
 about this to the other icon designers we all agrea that a centralized place 
 for all icons is beter...

I don't see why that centralized place cannot be kdebase/runtime as that
is already a hard runtime requirement for all kde apps. I do understand
that you could more easily produce releases yourself from a
kdesupport/oxygen-icons module, so I'm not saying you should go back to
kdebase/runtime if the separate releases are an important factor.

Apart from that I mostly see education problems and the problem of
people copying existing apps to start their own (and existing apps doing
it wrong). And you can't fix those problems with throwing software or
hardware at them, btw. anybody knows what the tutorials on techbase tell
people about icons?

Andreas

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-26 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:

 I talked with Casper (over irc) on what would be needed for releasing
 oxygen icons. Unless I missed something, it's tag, export and upload (mail
 kde- packager ?), and he seemed ready to do it himself.


I'm willing to do the packaging myself, but I need the information where to 
find the oxygen icons for KDE 4.2.2. You're not really telling me that I should 
use the trunk version of oxygen icons, right?

What is the version number of the oxygen icons? where can I find the version 
that matches KDE 4.2 branch?

Thanks,
Dirk
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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-18 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Monday 16 March 2009, C. Boemann wrote:

 The oxygen icons have been moved to kdesupport/oxygenicons

 The intension is to release it more often than kde itself, so that we can
 provide up-to-date icons for applications that are outside the normal KDE
 release schedules

I am probably missing the discussion somewhere.. but who is going to provide 
working oxygen tarballs for each KDE release and where are they being found?

thanks,
dirk
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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Dirk Mueller wrote:
 On Monday 16 March 2009, C. Boemann wrote:
 
 The oxygen icons have been moved to kdesupport/oxygenicons

 The intension is to release it more often than kde itself, so that we can
 provide up-to-date icons for applications that are outside the normal KDE
 release schedules
 
 I am probably missing the discussion somewhere.. but who is going to provide 
 working oxygen tarballs for each KDE release and where are they being found?

I'd go a step further, and highly recommend that oxygen make a 
standalone release (tarball) for public consumption asap, so that 
distros can get a head start on packaging it.

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Re: oxygen icons moved

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
 On Wednesday 18 March 2009 7:04:19 am Dirk Mueller wrote:
  I am probably missing the discussion somewhere.. but who is going to
  provide working oxygen tarballs for each KDE release and where are they
  being found?

 Dirk,

 The original thread subject was Fwd: icon packaging.
 I asked the same question in that thread.
 The relevant exchange follows:

 ===
 Are you planning to manage the weekly snapshots yourself?
 Or do you expect Dirk to manage that?

 I was hoping I could be automated along with the snapshots.
 
  But no I wasn't prepared to do it myself, but if needed I can't be that
  difficult to blog-advertice for a person to do that.

Well snapshots are themselves different from releases anyways, unless this is 
to be the idea of the oxygen icon release.

And it looks to me like no one is doing it since unless the aforementioned 
blog advertisement has already been made and I missed it.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne


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oxygen icons moved

2009-03-16 Thread C. Boemann
The oxygen icons have been moved to kdesupport/oxygenicons

The intension is to release it more often than kde itself, so that we can 
provide up-to-date icons for applications that are outside the normal KDE 
release schedules

The oxygen icons will be removed from upcoming 4.2.2 kdebase too,

Best regards
Casper
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