Re: Stock Items Deprecation

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:44:13AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Besides what Bastian already points out, I have another concern if we
> > are to consider moving
> > away from stock items completely.
> >
> > The document above points to this list of icon names:
> >    http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#names
> >
> > What guarantees do we have that referring to an icon name in the "icon
> > naming spec" will
> > actually produce an icon ?
>
> GTK+ ships with a built-in icon theme that covers the named icons used
> by the stock system (not all listed in the naming spec).

Since gcalctool moved away from stock icons (f962134f66), I can't
tell the difference between "undo" and "clear" - both appear as
the icon not found icon, which causes a problem with usability.
If there is an automatic fallback mechanism, I don't see how it is
working, and "1. Provided a guaranteed, consistent, and high quality
set of icons for use in applications." seems to have evaporated.

Cheers,

Patrick