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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:59

/opt/kde2.2/share/icons/hicolor > find . | wc -l
1663
/opt/kde2.2/share/icons/locolor > find . | wc -l
31

Uhm? You have to install a "locolor" _theme_ to get _some_ locolor icons!? I think that's not acceptable! I hardly believe an admin can tell _any_ user of his Solaris network that he has to activate a special theme when new KDE becomes default (under this circumstances I believe it will never become it).

And there are many many icons missing. In K-menu (Development, Office, Toys, Word-Processing, Game-Submenus), application icons (e.g. Kate), all new entries of control center, KWord lacks half of it's icons. I stop here to summarize.

Better think of an automated process which regularly locates and creates all missing locolor-icons by dithering and installs them under $KDEDIR/share/icons/locolor/ .

Sorry, Tackat but it looks like a quick bad shot.

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Tackat on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @09:31

> Uhm? You have to install a "locolor" _theme_
> to get _some_ locolor icons!?
> I think that's not acceptable!

Actually KDE should switch automatically to the locolor-icontheme if it is available just the same way KDE 2.1 did.

> KWord lacks half of it's icons. I stop here to summarize.

Feel free to take care of this task. The locolor-icons were removed from kdelibs/base because they weren't maintained actively anymore.

> Better think of an automated process which
> regularly locates and creates all missing
> locolor-icons

Well in that case dithering the remaining hicolor-icons on the fly is certainly the better solution.

Tackat

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @18:48

> Actually KDE should switch automatically to the locolor-icontheme if it is available just the same way KDE 2.1 did.

KDE 2.1 did this!? I tested switching to an 8bpp display with an existing and a new KDE user: Both times KDE 2.2 did NOT install [a part of (the icons)] the existing "LoColor" KThemeMgr theme. I think you are confusing something:

All my KDE 2.1 installations don't contain a "Locolor.ktheme"-file. The locolor icons are installed in $KDEDIR/share/icons/locolor as fallback for the IconLoader. There is no kthememgr theme installed which would copy the icons to ~/.kde/share/icons/locolor (robbing the users' quotas). Please change kdeartwork's Makefile to install the icons in $KDEDIR/share/icons/locolor rather than creating a ktheme-file which has to be installed manually!

> Well in that case dithering the remaining hicolor-icons on the fly is certainly the betters olution.

I agree, but I guess we don't will see this included in KDE 2.2. :-(

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Tackat on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @09:11

> I agree, but I guess we don't will see this
> included in KDE 2.2. :-(

Looks like you guessed wrong. :-)

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Greetings,
Tackat

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @15:24

Great! I noticed today that linking the 'locolor' dir to the 'hicolor' dir will do the same trick inclusive dithering.

But there is a bug: If you install the locolor-icon theme it stops working! I would expect it to search first user's locolor-icons followed by system-wide locolor-icons and last dithering system-wide highcolor-icons.

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @16:05

#26618 seems to describe this

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Antonio Larrosa on Saturday 21/Jul/2001, @10:46

> But there is a bug: If you install the
> locolor-icon theme it stops working! I would

In what sense ?

> expect it to search first user's locolor-icons
> followed by system-wide locolor-icons and last
> dithering system-wide highcolor-icons.

You seem to be still using hicolor as your icon theme. Go to KControl->Look&Feel->Icons and select locolor as your icon theme.

About #26618, the application cannot assume that locolor is installed anymore, so this is a problem in the application installation.

Greetings,

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Saturday 21/Jul/2001, @12:41

>> If you install the locolor-icon theme it stops working!
> In what sense ?

In the locolor-icon theme missing icons are not dithered anymore. As soon as I apply it e.g. the Kate icon in Kicker changes to "unknown" icon. After "dcop kicker restart" e.g. the icons of the game-submenus changed to "unknown" icon too.

> You seem to be still using hicolor as your icon theme. Go to KControl->Look&Feel->Icons and select locolor as your icon theme.

No, "KDE-LoColor, Lowcolor Icon Theme" is selected. Applying it again, doesn't change anything either.

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Re: Locolor-Icons
by Antonio Larrosa on Sunday 22/Jul/2001, @00:07

> In the locolor-icon theme missing icons are not dithered anymore. As soon as I apply it e.g.
> the Kate icon in Kicker changes to "unknown" icon. After "dcop kicker restart" e.g. the icons
> of the game-submenus changed to "unknown" icon too.

Aaah, I see. You're right, that's a real problem (but different from #26618). Thanks for reporting it.

It's fixed now. Please update your locolor theme from the kdeartwork module.

Greetings

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