Re: GNOME icon names

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:26, Christian Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> I upgraded to GNOME 2.4 from Red Hat Rawhide today and noticed that 
> in Red Hat the GNOME icons have mostly new names like 'icon-*',
> yet also using their own 'redhat-*' for the same icons.
> 
> Looking a gnome-icon-theme it does not contain icons using this naming
> standard (the icon-* one), so I assume it is currently a Red Hat only
> fix.
> 
> Question is if the names used by RH is the names we we plan to use for
> GNOME in the future. The reason I am asking is to know if I should start
> migrating gnome-themes-extras to these new icon names or if I should
> just add them as a new bunch of symlinks.
> 

Look at the redhat-artwork build and the icon-slicer tool on
freedesktop.org for the full context of what's going on. We have a
config file that generates GNOME/KDE-specific symlinks to a set of base
icon names.

Havoc