deprecated stuff

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Aug 30 22:48:32 CEST 2005


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> I'll admit I wrote XfceIconTheme sorta backwards.  I started with the
> spec, and implemented what seemed reasonable, and then tried it with
> XfceDesktopMenu.  The results were much crappier than I expected.  A
> good number of icons were missing, and fiddling with XDG_DATA_DIRS
> didn't seem to help.  So the game turned into "how many icons can I get
> it to display without doing terribly icky things?"
> 
> Again, I'm looking for solutions - if someone wants to kick the
> maintainers of apps using legacy maintainers, go ahead.  I'm in favor of
> it.  In the meantime, I want our icon lookups to succeed.

Ok, speaking of solutions: Can you try to use the existing XfceIconTheme
interface and use GtkIconTheme internally, so we don't need to (a)
deprecate the XfceIconTheme API and (b) add another API that might be
deprecated with Xfce 4.6 then?

Benedikt



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