[Tango-artists] Presentation and suggestions on icon-naming-utils

[Juan Manuel García Molina]

Hi again.

El Domingo, 20 de Noviembre de 2005 06:30, escribió:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:52 +0100, Juan Manuel García Molina wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I would like to thank you for the nice work on Tango icons and I would
> > also like to share a pair of thinks with you.
> >
> > I use KDE 3.4 and I would like to have a better experience with Tango.
> > Thus, I've been hacking a while on "legacy-icon-mapping.xml" to get
> > working, for example, the mail-attach icon. In order to do it, I added
> > these lines on context dir "actions":
> >   <icon name="../status/mail-attachment">
> >     <link>attach</link><!-- KDE 3.4 -->
> >   </icon>
> >
> > And it works (I can see the clip). Before keep on working a bit on this
> > issue and keep on defining links for icons, I would like to know if you
> > consider correct the use of the folder path "../status/".
>
> No. The icon name is a name, not a path. There is a patch floating
> around somewhere that will make KDE 3.5 at least, support the new
> contexts, though. I don't have a url, or the patch handy, or I would
> attach it, but you probably want to get it. The target KDE version
> for Tango to work on is really going to be KDE 4. Not everything is
> going to be guaranteed to work on older versions, due to the way that
> icon themes are handled in the KDE codebase. The name attribute for the
> icon tag, and the cdata for the link tags, should all be ONLY the name
> of the icons in question. Having to use symlinks is bad enough. Adding
> cross-directory symlinks on top of that makes it even more difficult
> to manage properly.

I see. Another reason to expect for KDE 4.

Thanks and regards,
Juanma.

-- 
Juan Manuel  García Molina
  juanma at superiodico.net
http://www.superiodico.net
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