Icon names vs. emblems

Jakob Petsovits jpetso at gmx.at
Fri Jul 11 12:52:06 PDT 2008


On Friday, 11. July 2008, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> KDE (at least in 3.5,  I am not sure about 4.x) for example, uses "overlays"
> for certain files where GNOME uses emblems.

KDE 4 has abandoned overlays and now uses emblems as well. Unlike GNOME,
we don't support specialized emblem positioning via icon files though, so 
currently our emblems are just in one of the corners of an icon (which one is 
defined by the application using the emblem).

-- Jakob



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