> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:14:24 +0200
> From: gigaherz@gmail.com
> To: ros-dev@reactos.org
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Unify system icons into one central folder
>
> Yes, it is indeed a ridiculous analogy. I believe there are too many
> advantages to have a unified place to have most of the common icons
> usable by any app that needs them.
>
> Note that my idea was for common icons, thing such the usual "objects"
> (document icon, folder icon, the configuration cogs, warning triangle,
> ...) and "actions" (document-new, search, navigate-back/dorward,
> zoom-in/out, ...).
>
> I believe this ADDS to modularization, since it removes duplicate
> copies of icons and unifies them in a more manageable way, while most
> people who work on code are going to download most of ReactOS AND
> RosTests either way, because it's not that useful with just the
> kernel. ;P
>
> I do admit that it has one bigger side-effect: if someone wants to
> "move out" a single module/app away from the rest of the repository,
> they'd have to select the required icons manually, but this does not
> happen very often and it shouldn't really be bothering us. If a lot of
> people are taking pieces of ReactOS and moving them elsewhere, this is
> a sign of bad things.
>
> On 24 July 2015 at 10:18, Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I like the idea in general, but there must be a cleaner and more modular way
> > of doing it instead of dumping everything in one location.
> >
> >
> >
> > In an area where many devs are pushing to modularize things (think current
> > win32ss and future minwin), this moves the tree in the opposite direction.
> > If you were a kernel and win32ss guy, you’d then need to have all the icons
> > for the whole OS in your WC just to build the area you’re interested in.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is a kinda ridiculous analogy, but imagine if you had to checkout KDE
> > just to build the linux kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ged.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Jared Smudde
> > Sent: 24 July 2015 02:39
> > To: ros-dev@reactos.org
> > Subject: [ros-dev] Unify system icons into one central folder
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello. I am Jared Smudde aka. Pi_User5. I propose that we move most of the
> > icons in trunk into a central folder in the media folder. Some icons will
> > need to stay because they might be application specific. The folder can be
> > called icons and it would be organized according to
> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html.
> > This way, we can eliminate duplicate icons thus making trunk slightly
> > smaller. It will also make changing ReactOS to a different icon theme much
> > easier. This idea was suggested by gigaherz and I would like to see it done.
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
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