Re: Stock Items Deprecation

[Patrick Welche <prlw1 cam ac uk>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:01:25PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:44:13AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > > Besides what Bastian already points out, I have another concern if we
> > > are to consider moving
> > > away from stock items completely.
> > >
> > > The document above points to this list of icon names:
> > >    http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#names
> > >
> > > What guarantees do we have that referring to an icon name in the "icon
> > > naming spec" will
> > > actually produce an icon ?
> >
> > GTK+ ships with a built-in icon theme that covers the named icons used
> > by the stock system (not all listed in the naming spec).
>
> Since gcalctool moved away from stock icons (f962134f66), I can't
> tell the difference between "undo" and "clear" - both appear as
> the icon not found icon, which causes a problem with usability.
> If there is an automatic fallback mechanism, I don't see how it is
> working, and "1. Provided a guaranteed, consistent, and high quality
> set of icons for use in applications." seems to have evaporated.


From

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

  "Implementations are required to look in the "hicolor" theme if
   an icon was not found in the current theme."

Which suggests that there should be a fallback mechanism, but given the
gcalctool example, it doesn't seem to be implemented?

Cheers,

Patrick