Re: where is emblem info stored ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 23 Jan 2003, MArk Finlay wrote:

> > Unfortunately there is another problem with the whole custom emblem thing. 
> > If you use a theme that doesn't inherit from "gnome" the emblems in 
> > ~/.icons/gnome/48x48/emblems would not be picked up, and this is where the 
> > custom emblem install in nautilus places them...
> 
> This I really don't think you can do anything about - that would be a
> theme issue. All themes should really inherit from gnome.

There are reasons to not inherit from gnome. If your "look" is 
sufficiently different from the gnome theme a "default" icon looks better 
than a gnome-style icon for a mimetype that isn't yet in your theme.

This is especially so when you have a "generic" icon. i.e. 
"gnome-mime-video" that matches all mimetypes video/* that doesn't have a 
more specific icon. If the inherited theme (gnome) has a more specific 
icon (e.g. "gnome-mime-video-mpeg") it will be used instead of your 
generic icon, which leads to clashes in look.

A possible solution could be to add a function that lets you look up a 
list of icons in inheritance order. This would allow you to match mime 
icons in a better way, thus somewhat helping out. But some themes still 
might now want to inherit from gnome.

There is a theme that is *always* inherited. It's called "hicolor" and is 
used to share fallback application icons with e.g. kde and 3rd party apps. 
You need to download[1] and install it for fallbacks to work though, and 
it doesn't have an emblems directory. It is also a common namespace that 
we can't really pollute.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec/hicolor-icon-theme-0.2.tar.gz

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