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

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

Joe English wrote:
> 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].

Thanks for the references. Getting them now. This mail actually arrived here 
after your 'some other notes' mail. Now it is clear to me that fd.o there meant 
freedesktop.org.

> 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.)

Andreas.