Icon names vs. emblems

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Jun 17 04:38:16 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso at gmx.at> wrote:
> Also, what should happen if there are more emblems required by the application
> (say, folder+encrypted+important+favorite)? When that verbatim icon does not
> exist, will the icon engine look up folder+encrypted+important, then
> folder+important+favorite, then folder+encrypted+favorite, then
> folder+encrypted, then (...continue ad infinitum)?
>
> Or will it just try once for the full name with all emblems and immediately
> fall back to single icons when that one doesn't exist?
>
> (Personally, I'd prefer the latter variant in order to save hard disk lookups
> for an unprobable case.)

I'd prefer to require +fragments to always be sorted alphabetically.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution


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