Re: [kde-artists] Custom icons

Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.artists
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 21:13, Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday 11 November 2011 16:29:07 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > So we'd like to know your opinion here. Can we ship it like that? Or
> should
> > we create/request new icon for this?
>
> I think a new icon request is better. We're usually damn out of manpower on
> these matters, but coding icons is... ugh! Veery prone to breakages. :)
> As another solution, why don't you create such an icon directly as svg
> (rather
> than in c++), even if it's just temporary?
>

The main rationale was theming. If you compose the icon at runtime, there
is pretty good chance, that the icon /will/ look good with other icon
themes as it simply takes the themed icons and puts them together. With own
icon the user has to manually overwrite that icon to match the theme. Also
it's rather unstandard icon, so even if it was part of Oxygen, it won't be
in majority of themes.

There were strong voices for both options, so I decided to ship our own
icon.

Cheers!
--
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer



>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo
>
>

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