4.4 default look - Take 3

[daniele favara]

On 2/4/06, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> daniele favara schreef:
> ...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> 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.

Thanks ... it seems i can continue :)

> 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 .

well it seems uptodate, it can help me to not forget some icons ...
but the result of what i'm proposing should be that xfce4 icon names
will not be hardcoded ... that means each theme that respects the icon
naming spec will be compatible with xfce.

There is one main issue i see in xfce4-panel:

1) Add new item
2) Launcher
3) Select the icon <-- here it shows the icon from the theme in use
but on the panel i see the Rodent icon .....