On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:57 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
By using the icon naming spec and theming we have the opportunity to make it so that you change the setting once for your desktop and you'd have the same icon for the same thing in all programs, which could give a big boon the "Create Suite" concept with Open Source graphics apps.
Uhm, let's see :) Let's imagine that Tango icons suddenly work as expected. Then a user switches from Tango to a different theme that stil bears resemblance to Tango (say, GNOME Brave). What will happen then?
The icon specification provides for things like fall back icons and for icon themes providing their own set of fallbacks. So most icon themes that ship today are actually a base set, with a fallback to a more complete set that is similar. Also, many applications ship with a default set of icons that the theme can override. Sure, in those cases GIMP and Inkscape wouldn't match, but that's no worse than we have today.
--Ted