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Re: elementary icons folders

 

Actually, almost all icon themes used the same structure as elementary
does. I only know about GNOME and KDE using the standard for their icons.


On 1 December 2012 10:37, Sergio Costas <rastersoft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First, say that I'm not an expert. I'm just working in adding some icons
> to my app, found that, and became curious about it.
>
> The standard is here:
>
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>
> The path format is described in the fifth paragraph, in section
> "Directory layout".
>
> Anyway, as I say, it seems to work. I was just curious.
>
> El 01/12/12 10:18, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff escribió:
> > Isn't that defined in the "index.theme" file? I'm pretty sure
> > elementary theme uses XDG icon naming utilities, and they explicitly
> > support this configuration AFAIR. Could you post a link to the FD.o
> > standard?
> >
> > 2012/12/1 Sergio Costas <rastersoft@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Hi all:
> >>
> >> I found something quite odd: elementary icons in ElementaryOS are stored
> >> in a folder format that doesn't follow the FreeDesktop standard: they
> >> are stored as:
> >>
> >>     /usr/share/icons/elementary/TYPE/SIZE
> >>
> >> when the standard specifies that it should be:
> >>
> >>     /usr/share/icons/elementary/SIZExSIZE/TYPE
> >>
> >> Why is this made that way?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
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