Re: Application specific HC icons how?
Calum Benson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.themes |
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| Organization | Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:26 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:30 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > There's also the question of what happens if two applications want to > > install HC icons with the same name (which may or may not look the > > same). I guess we already have that problem with the hicolor theme, > > though, and it probably just needs a 'best practice' guideline, if there > > isn't one already. > > There can not be two executables in the same $bindir with the same > name. Applications should not install icons to the system theme, that > are not the application icon. Yep, my bad, I was thinking about the generic icons like "accessories-calculator", an application icon that several different calculator apps might feel they have a right to install. But actually none of them should install it, I suppose. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[email protected] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems