On Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:57:45 Harald Sitter wrote: > Hola! > > Our most awesome icon maintainers wanted to carry over icon symlinking > from breeze to oxygen, alas that turned up a whole slew of > compatibility problems. > > examples: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360605 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360510 > > # Problem > In kde4 software people used oxygen as the standard icon set and > installed their own icons there. Since breeze covers all icons ever, > replicating its coverage into oxygen means we have a million conflicts > with (older?) tarballs of existing software that also install icons > into oxygen under the same name. > > # Proposal > We could get rid of this and all future conflicts if we shift the > default oxygen icons into a subdirectory. > > So, we install the default icons to > > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/base/22x22 > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/base/32x32 > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/base/... > > applications can thus continue to install to > > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/22x22 > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/32x32 > $prefix/share/icons/oxygen/... > > without conflicting with our base files what so ever. > > Downside of this is that the index.theme basically needs to list > everything twice (once for base and once for main directory), which > unfortunately incurs a bit of a runtime overhead. This is a bit of a > crap situation we are in and I can't think of another solution to > this.
This doesn't sound like it matches the freedesktop.org icon theme spec. But if you rename oxygen/base/ to oxygen, and oxygen/ to hicolor, then it does, AFAIK.... -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
