4.4 default look - Take 3

[Jasper Huijsmans]

daniele favara schreef:
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>>>>> The rodent theme seems somehow "hardcoded" in xfce ... if i'm not
>>>>> wrong why not to make xfce fully "themeable" ?
>>>> Because it takes effort, and there are more important things to do.  If
>>>> you have the time, feel free to work up a patch.  Most of Xfce's icons
>>>> are indeed themable; there are only a few parts (like the main settings
>>>> dialog, for example) that have hardcoded icon names.
>>>>
>>> i'll take a look on this, is it ok if i ask to tango project people to
>>> add xfce icon names? or are you planing to change the names of those
>>> icons ?
>> This should be done on an icon-by-icon basis.  If there's an icon name
>> in the spec that matches the function of an icon that we're using (with
>> a different name), then we should just change ours.  But if there isn't
>> anything similar, we should ask for new icon names to be added.
>>
>>> i was thinkng to write a page on my wiki, showing the xfce icons,
>>> possible tango icons and relative names ... then ask to add the names
>>> when and if you accept that.
>> That sounds fine.  Please go by the official icon naming specification
>> and not just by what's in the tango icon theme.
>>
> 
> here we go ...
> 
> http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Roadmap-0.3-1:XfceTheme
> 
> i'll continue just in case i'll see what i'm doing is useful for you too :).
> 
> There are some icons that apparently are needed in the xfce icon theme
> but that doesn't exist in the icon namin spec ... i don't know if the
> following link can be somhow useful  ..
> 
> http://tango-project.org/Icon_Metaphors
> 

That's great! Very nice indeed.

Some time ago I wrote a little howto for xfce icon themeing, which 
possibly no longer is 100% up-to-date. You may still find it useful: 
http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/files/icons/ICONTHEMES .

Thanks,
	Jasper