icon theme changes

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Feb 24 20:18:56 CET 2006


Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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> Hi all,
> 
> Earlier this evening I replaced the XfceIconTheme stuff in the
> xfce_themed_icon_*() convenience functions with GtkIconTheme calls plus
> a little crap to make GtkIconTheme a little less picky about icon names.
> 
> I plan to turn XfceIconTheme into a simple proxy object for GtkIconTheme
> and leave it in place solely for backward compatibility.  All Xfce apps
> should eventually be changed to either use GtkIconTheme directly, or the
> xfce_themed_icon_*() convenience functions, and XfceIconTheme should not
> be used *at all*.  I'll be reimplementing the category lookup
> functionality as convenience functions along side the other
> xfce_themed_icon_*() stuff.  If you don't get around to fixing this for
> your particular app, no worries: XfceIconTheme will still work in 4.4.
> 
> Anyway, it's somewhat likely that some icons in some apps that were
> found before might stop being found.  If so, please file a bug (feel
> free to assign it to me) and let me know specifically which icon in
> which application.  The more specific the better.  The desktop menu
> seems ok so far, so I'm not overly worried.
> 
> I know it may not be the best idea to be making a change like this right
> now, but I think it's worth it, and the risk is relatively low.
> 

It's a great idea if you ask me, and fairly low-risk (compared to other 
changes like a complete panel rewrite ;-)

	Jasper



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