[Sugar-devel] Icon theme overriding

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> I had a look to your test.

Thanks.

> A few things
>
> * You seem to have a Sugar/sugar mismatch in the theme name and directory
> name.

Not sure this is a problem. In the sugar theme, the name is OLPC,
which doesn't match anything.

> * The index.theme goes inside icons/sugar

That matters :)

>
> With these fixed the mock icon is found.
>
> Also
>
> * You don't want to call gtk-icon-cache-update on the system path. You might
> want to do so on the user icon dir instead.

Don't think I need this at all. But it can be added to Ignacio's user
app if needed.

> * $XDG_DATA-DIR/icons is already part of the default path. What about just
> using that?

Makes sense.

> * If you haven't yet take a look to
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
> which explains nicely how this stuff is supposed to work.

I was looking for something like this. Couldn't find anything as
straight-forward in the GNOME docs.

Seems as long as we set up the theme properly (which can be done from
user space), we can do everything from the activity itself, so no need
for any sugar changes to implement this feature. Nice.

>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez

thanks.

-walter

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