Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, & menu icons

[Bastian, Waldo]

>http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/
><<
>Portland is a new Free Desktop initiative coming out of the OSDL
Desktop
>Architects' Meeting (hosted in Portland, Oregon in December 2005).
>Portland intends to generate a common set of Linux Desktop Interfaces
>and Tools to allow all applications to easily integrate with the free
>desktop configuration an end user has chosen to work with.
> >>
>Did I miss something?
>
>If an app is going to request an icon through the Portland interface
>library, aren't they going to need to be installed in a standardized
>location as well.

Not per se. If Portland can't find a themed version of the icon, the app
can use any other method it seems fit to get to an icon. And as I
mentioned already before (Did you see that mail? It's hard to tell from
your other mails) it is undesirable for applications to install icons
into $XDG_DATA_DIRS if there is no actual requirement for doing so.

Cheers,
Waldo