Re: GEP 7 - icons and thumbnails - gnome_icon_loader

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Alex,

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:27, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> For an icon theme chooser you would need a theme name to display, right?
> KDE uses the name already in their system, so we can't remove if from the 
> spec, but if it worries you we can ignore it in GnomeIconTheme (you need 
> something else to list all themes anyway).

	I'm more worried about the size of the file / parsing speed / startup
time cost than whether we store a single utf-8 string in core :-) but
nevermind - it seems this is a pre-lost battle that I missed the boat
on. I think it's something that we should take an active role in trying
to stop the creation of more copy-cat files with embedded translation. 

> I did something a bit like this after the rename. There are no accessors 
> yet, but its slightly more abstracted out. Going fully abstract might be a 
> better idea though.

	Will you take a patch to fully abstract this ? I can't think of any
good performance reason to have it like this.

> > 	Somehow I'm not getting anything but the builtin icon for everything;
> > it's certainly something stupid I'm doing though.
> 
> Make sure you use the "gnome" icon theme, or a theme that inherits from 
> it.

	No idea how I do that; I just installed all the packages and assumed it
would work without further intervention. I assumed the 'default' theme
would have pretty icons - but perhaps that's just for want of artistic
endeavour.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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