Icon Theme Spec Patch

[Heinrich Wendel]

On Monday 15 September 2003 09:40, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 14:43, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While implementing the icon-theme-spec I found a few things that should
> > be corrected in the current version:
> >
> > 1.) Convert it to the basedir spec (this is only incompatible to
> > $HOME/.icons, which now is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/icons)
>
> Thus instantly changing semantics and breaking all implementations out
> there and losing all icons pepople currently have in ~/.icons. This
> isn't some abstract idea of a standard. Its in use in the real world,
> and we can't just change it without consideration of that.

Yes it will break, but it is a really small break, only few people use the 
~./icons directory and implementations may choose to support the old dir for 
backwards compatibility.

>
> > 2.) Change type of MaxSize, MinSize and Threshold to integer
> >
> > 3.) Removed a small typo in the code example (changed subdirectory to
> > subdir)
>
> Cool.
>
> > 4.) Corrected url to default-icon-theme
>
> This looks wrong. The uri seems to be
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/icon-theme/

Yeah, you're right.

>
>
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mfg, Heinrich :)