On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Hannah von Reth <vonr...@kde.org> wrote: > Hi everyone.
Hi Hannah, > > Only some few of you will be aware of KIconThemes ability to load binary > icon themes automagically. > > https://cgit.kde.org/kiconthemes.git/tree/src/kicontheme.cpp#n48 > > The code looks for a icontheme.rcc and sets it as default theme. > > On Windows and Mac we rely on that code as it is more feasible to > install that one > file with an single application installer. This code also ensures that > the theme path is set, > which on Linux is done by the qpa. > > The problem with the current solution is that it only allows one single > theme and is in a tier3 > framework. > > I recently talked to David Faure and we agreed that it would be best to > put those few line of code into a new > created tier1 framework, with an explicit call instead of the magical > loading. > > The explicit call would allow to specify the theme loaded and we can > still maintain the current behaviour by putting a call to > that new framework into KIconThemes. > > Now we need a name for that tier1 framework and ideally someone who > steps up for the once in a lifetime chance to become > maintainer of a glorious new tier1 framework. While I can't be the maintainer for the framework, to get the ball rolling may I suggest the name of 'kiconsupport' for the Framework? > > Cheers, > > Hannah > Cheers, Ben
