Hello, On jeudi 18 janvier 2018 08:45:51 CET Hannah von Reth wrote: > Hi everyone. > > 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.
Thanks for the work on this. If nobody steps up, I can volunteer to maintain it if people are OK with this. The workload should be low ? I depend on this code for a good windows support. This is important for me. > Cheers, > > Hannah Best regards -- Matthieu Gallien
