Re: Sudden Tango changes in trunk

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:47 -0500, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
> Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
[...]
> I think it is clear that if you use "gtk-foo" icon for "bar" then
> you're misusing it. But let's not forget about the reasons for
> doing it: there may simply be no other alternative other than no
> icon at all. gtk icons set is not exactly rich to cover even simplish
> non-stock metaphors, and if a programmer wants to have an
> icon for "foobarize" he will use "gtk-jump-to". Yes, bad and all that.
> Icon theme maintainers say that's plain wrong and bad for
> user and everything, but what can we do?

We can install our own icons for the corner cases that exist 
only for our applications - and we can lobby for the addition
of icons in the theme when they start to become more than
a simple corner case.

Cheers,
                       -Tristan