New project request/idea

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue April 13 2004 16:05, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:46, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:24, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> > > I recall Rodney Dawes was working on a draft for icon file naming
> > > convention. It would make a lot of sense to share a common set of file
> > > names. I cannot locate the message, nor URL though. Dobey?
> >
> > I tried to come up with this initially when creating the icon theme
> > specification itself, but there seemed to be little interest in it.
> > Here is the discussion:
> >
> > https://listman.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2002-September/msg00039.html
> >
> > By now, each desktop has their own names for icons, and it think it'll
> > be very hard to change it. The names are pretty much a part of the
> > ABI/API in some sense.
>
> It would be possible to do a slow transition between current code and
> the desktops' next incompatible release.  Basically, icons would need
> aliases (done internally by each implementation), so that gnome-cdrom
> and device-cdrom (for example) would really be the same application.
> The desktop-specific names would be deprecated, and the next
> incompatible release would drop them.
>
> Not pretty, no, but may be the only option if this "problem" is going to
> be fixed.

The first step would need to be to list all the icons of the two environments, 
identify those that are equivalent and propose a "standard name" for such 
icon.

Not pretty and quite some work, but one of those things that has to be done if 
we want to turn the linux desktop into a single platform away from its 
current split-personality.

Cheers,
Waldo
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