[Sugar-devel] Icon theme overriding

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> LOn Saturday, 22 June 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> > * 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.
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>
> You are probably right I didn't test it separately. I thought it might
> matter because the index was outside, being inside it would make sense to
> not matter. We should change OLPC :)

I'll prepare a patch.

>
>> > * 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.
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>
>
> Not required but I don't know if it would be a good optimisation. Gtk might
> not cache icons in memory, if that's the case we should do this to avoid
> touching disk every time. Need to check the code.
>
> If we do it I'd rather do it in the shell, it's a global thing.
>
>
>> > * 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
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>
> Something you might want in the shell is to refresh the caches (both gtk and
> sugar) on file changes in the user directory. Otherwise you will need a
> restart. Perhaps as a first step requiring a restart is ok, I dunno. Make it
> all work on the fly is probably some work, I'm sure there are bugs involved
> too.

I've handed this back to Ignacio, who is working on the Sugar App...
Let's see what he comes up with.

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>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>



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