Re: Fwd: [gnome-love] Participate to the GNOME Goals and feel the love!

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:37 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > We currently have two goals:
> >
> >   + http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon
> >     This is about correctly installing and using application icons so
> >     that we're theme-friendly.
> 
> Can I ask for a little bit of clarification on this goal?  Is this
> only supposed to apply to the application icon?  What about apps that
> provide different icons (toolbar icons, etc.)?  Are these expected to
> still be installed to $datadir/pixmaps?  or should they follow the
> same pattern described for app icons?

The Icon Theme Specification was designed mainly with the purpose of
making it easy to theme and install application icons in a canonical
location (or set of locations). Icons for toolbars/etc... really should
not be installed to theme directories by applications. And applications
should only install the application icon (at the various sizes), into
the hicolor/$size/apps/ directories.

If there are specific toolbar icons in question, please bring them up
on gnome-themes-list, so that we can appropriately determine how they
should be dealt with. In general, application-specific icons should be
installed into that application's private datadir.

-- dobey