Re: [Tcllib-devel] FamFam icon sets as packages - Tklib candidate - Requesting Review

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:

> How are KDE, Gtk, Qt handling the icons ? Do they have a general framework wi
> th
> configurable icon search paths ? Or is that part of an app handled by the app
> itself still ?

KDE and Gnome applications use the freedesktop "Icon Theme
Specification" [1] to locate icon themes, which in turn
is based on the "Desktop Base Directory" spec [2].

Those specs just say where to look for icons; what to name
them (or conversely, what icons an application can expect
to be present) is described in the "Icon Naming Specification" [3].

(At least that's how it works in theory.  The KDE and Gnome
toolkits have support for [1] and [2] built-in, so almost
all apps use those two, but I'm not sure how widely [3]
has been adopted.  In the past, icon themes have been
more-or-less ad-hoc.)

[1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-theme-spec
[2] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec
[3] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-naming-spec


--Joe English