Icon theme 0.11

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Sat Jun 24 21:29:48 EEST 2006


Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:32 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> This paragraph:
>>
>> The lookup inside a theme is done in three phases. First all the 
>> directories are scanned for an exact match, e.g. one where the allowed 
>> size of the icon files match what was looked up. Then all the 
>> directories are scanned for any icon that matches the name. If that 
>> fails we finally fall back on unthemed icons. If we fail to find any 
>> icon at all it is up to the application to pick a good fallback, as the 
>> correct choice depends on the context.
>>
>> Doesn't quite make sense.
>>
>> This part is basically OK:
>>
>> The lookup inside a theme is done in *three* phases. First all the 
>> directories are scanned for an exact match, e.g. one where the allowed 
>> size of the icon files match what was looked up. Then all the 
>> directories are scanned for any icon that matches the name.
>>
>> except that it lists only _two_ phases that are done inside the icon theme.
>>
>> The rest of it seems to be on a different subject and therefore should 
>> not be in the same paragraph.
> 
> Its not really a different subject, its still talking about what to do
> when looking up an icon name. Maybe instead the "inside a theme" part of
> the first sentence could be cleaned up?
> 
> Did you have a proposal for a new paragraph text?

Actually, I think that this section of the spec needs to be expanded to 
more than one paragraph.

-- 
JRT



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