unifying icon themes

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> hi all-
> 
> i want to move the icon theme setting out of the panel prefs and into 
> the UI prefs.  i also want it to look for icon themes in 
> /usr/share/icons (or, rather, $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons or whatever it is).
> 
> there are a couple problems with this.  the main one is that if there's 
> a theme in /usr/share/icons (let's call it Foobar), that doesn't exist 
> in /usr/share/xfce4/themes, and the user selects icon theme Foobar, then 
> the panel is without themed icons.  we can make a symlink in 
> /usr/share/xfce4/themes, from Curve (the default theme) to 'hicolor' 
> (the default/fallback theme according to the icon spec), and that will 
> at least give the panel some icons to display.  the problem is that if 
> someone wants to use Foobar as their main icon theme, but something 
> other than Curve for the panel theme, they can't.  well, i think they 
> can (depends on if gtk_icon_theme_set_theme_name() works globally or 
> just for the current GtkIconTheme instance), but that requires 
> maintaining the pref for the panel icon theme (as well as a "use global 
> theme" option for the panel), and that sounds quite like prefs bloat to me.
> 
> either way, the icon theme setting needs to be changed to set 
> Net/IconThemeName in XSETTINGS, because xfdesktop's icon themes are 
> broken without it in gtk 2.4.
> 
> so what do we think?  jasper, since the panel is yours, i'm especially 
> interested in your opinion.

The best solution would be to move the panel icons to standard locations IMHO. 
Just my 0,02EUR...

>    -brian

Benedikt

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