icon theme

[daniele favara]

On 2/6/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> samuel verstraete schrieb:
> > On 2/6/06, sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:38:16 -0800, \"Brian J. Tarricone\" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >>
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> >>>Nick Schermer wrote:
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> >>>>I think it\'s good to replace the current Rodent icons by the Tango ones
> >>>
> >>>Veto!
> >>
> >>just out of curiosity - wouldn\'t these live happily side-by-side ?
> >>
> >>Auke
> >>
> >
> > I *think* brian set his veto against the word 'replacing'.... while i
> > think danielle just wants to adjust a theme so it can live happily
> > next to rodent...

more or less that is, mainly the problem is not if to use Tango or
Rodent or whatever :), but let the user to choose the theme he|she
like.

Xfce has a default theme, then everyone can choose.  At the moment if
i change the xfce icon theme i don't have an homogeneus DM.

The best way to act is to fix the Rodent theme, then if the user
selects a different one, let's say Tango or any icon theme that will
use those specs, ALL the icons will be replaced.

> No, not really. What he does is summing up information about the two
> naming schemes (the one of Rodent/Xfce and that of Tango) in order to
> adjust the Rodent one. Currently, if you choose any other icon theme
> than Rodent, you still have some Rodent icons (e.g. in the MCS dialog),
> where you'd expect icons of your scheme to be displayed. This is what
> Daniele intends to fix by adjusting the Xfce naming scheme (and perhaps
> inspire the Tango designers to create some new icons, hehe).
>

you got exactly what i would :).

It shouldn't be that hard, and yes ... having xfce icons in icon
naming spec could help even in that direction.

Nowaday there are GNOME and KDE, but i think XFCE is part of the GNU/Linux DMs.

I would say GNOME, KDE and XFCE, and for this reason XFCE should try
to use as much as possible (and where possible) the freedesktop
"standards".

This is just my own opinion.

ciao

df