Question on icon theme

Fosstux fosstux at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 15:45:05 PDT 2007


Okay. If I may suggest something:

What about I create a wiki on my domain http://ixons.info, consisting
of one page per folder such as actions, apps etc.

If anyone finds an icon name that is missing, That file should be added
later on.

Thanks.

Christopher

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:36:34 -0600
"Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday 22 October 2007, you wrote:
> > Well this document contains a list of icon names as a base of an
> > icon theme - but all the apps icons and the distribution specific
> > icon names are not included.
> 
> well, yes .. this is the standard base icon set which, if
> implemented, makes your theme compliant with the (freedesktop.org)
> Icon Naming Spec.
> 
> the naming spec, due to being a standardizing specification, does not
> include customizations such as distro specific icon names.
> 
> however, it would probably be nice to collect all of those somewhere.
> probably no one has had the time / motivation to do so, is all.
> 
> as for applications, that's probably as easy as installing as many
> apps as you can and then do something like:
> 
> for i in `find /usr/share/applications/ -name '*.desktop'`
>     do grep Icon= $i  | sed "s,Icon=,,"
> done
> 
> the list should include all the application icons that get looked for.
> 


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