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KDE (Crystal) icons
by James Richard Tyrer on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @10:57

Does that mean that the icons are not installed as themeable?

I note here that the FreeDeskTop.org icon theme specifications requires that all applications support, in addition to any other icon themes that they support, the fall back icon theme HiColor.

This is not just a OOo-KDE issue, it is a problem with many KDE applications.

Despite clear instructions:

http://developer.kde.org/~larrosa/iconthemes.html

"The main point here is that you _must_ install icons to hicolor, and then you can _optionally_ install icons to other icon themes (kdeclassic, ikons, locolor, crystalsvg, etc.)."

many KDE applications do not have the required HiColor icons. This appears to be, at least in part, do to a misunderstanding about the exact meaning of "default" icon theme. Crystal is the current "default" icon theme but it is not the fall back icon theme and it must not be treated as though it is the only or standard (unthemed) icon theme.

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JRT

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Re: KDE (Crystal) icons
by Anonymous on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @22:25

> Does that mean that the icons are not installed as themeable?

Correct. Looking forward you volunteering to implement it.

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Re: KDE (Crystal) icons
by cm on Saturday 27/Nov/2004, @23:34

In fact James is already working in that area (not OOo, but other stuff). And I think he has a point when he says the app developers should get it right in the future. After all, it's not more work to install icons in the correct location instead of the wrong one (this is true at least for KDE apps, dunno about OOo). Fixing incorrect icon locations *is* additional work.

What he tried here was increasing the awareness for the problem.

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Re: KDE (Crystal) icons
by daniele on Tuesday 30/Nov/2004, @10:28

i sow the OOo icons are "bmp" and not "png":

for the su ./setup --->/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/share/config/symbol

for me -----> /home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/symbol/

i found this script:

links :
1) http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=8529
2) http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7131

i 've tryed it ... i'm not a developer ... it's simplier if you try it than explain... but it's seems it can't work for this OOo, it generate a single bpm with xml file in this folder

/home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/soffice.cfg/

but actually the icons are in

/home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/symbol

i think it could be a good idea to fix ....

PS* are you sure it's just needed to put the icons (png)in hicolor? ... OOo is linked to bpm ..... or not O_o?

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