[Rhythmbox-devel] Re: clearlooks/bluecurve icons

[William Free <erudite hacker gmail com>]

On 8/29/05, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 10:13 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 
> > Isn't it a better idea to put the icons in an gnome-icon-theme. This way
> > the icons will be themeable and every theme can decide which icons to use
> > :-)
> 
> It is better, definitely.  It's just a lot more complicated, because for
> the current icons, we need to use the rendering hack we have to make it
> look right.
> 
> Maybe the right way to go about this is to fix our current icons to not
> need the rendering hack (which AFAICS is only to do the prelighting on
> mouseover), then we can move to themed icons.
> 
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Just because it's more complicated doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. 
Maybe not right away, but eventually.  Doing it the *right* or
*better* way is at the heart of linux. Remember, "If it can be done
better.... do it."