Choosing the 'right' icon for an application

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Tue Jul 15 15:27:44 UTC 2008


Robin Norwood wrote:
> Nicu Buculei  wrote:
>> I am curious to identify which icon theme is the user using. The
>> browser does not know this info, the only way I can imagine it
>> working is to have smolt reporting the theme and link data from smolt
>> with amber. I don't think you want to go this route (complicated,
>> privacy issues, smolt is off by default)
> 
> Ah.  Well, to do the actual package install, we'll be using a browser
> plugin (probably) which will probably send us some limited information
> - like what version of Fedora the user is running, for instance.  It
> might be possible to include the current theme in this info.

So you will probably make available in the application icons from Mist, 
Echo and Tango (the icon sets are most likely to be installed at users, 
maybe add here the default KDE theme) and fall back to whatever is 
Fedora's default for any other set?

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