Hello Hannah, On mercredi 24 janvier 2018 10:32:17 CET Hannah von Reth wrote: > Hi Matthieu, > > On 21/01/2018 21:19, Matthieu Gallien wrote: > > 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. > > You would be more than welcome :)
Sorry for my late replay. Is there already a repository with work going on ? I would like to work on that because I am trying my best to have feature parity for my application on all supported platforms. Do you have any plans on how work could be organized ? > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Hannah > > > > Best regards > > > > -- > > Matthieu Gallien > > Cheers, > > Hannah Best regards -- Matthieu Gallien
