Re: [FR-devel] FYI -- KDE Icons

[Laurent Julliard]

Rich Kilmer wrote:

> Really cool.  These elements are excellect for both the GUI and the
> documentation (in HTML). We may want Laurent to check them in (since they
> will have the same vendor versioning issues as the elements in the redist
> directory).  When it comes to third-party includes, it may be best for him
> (or a designated person) to manage CVS updates.
>
> -Rich


I just took a look at the Slick Icon set (v 1.0.1) on kde-look.org site 
and downloaded them. The one problem I have is that it is a huge set of 
icons and they take a lot of disk space: the 16x16 icons are 1.9 MBytes, 
the 32x32 are 3 MBytes, the 48x48 are 2Mbytes,... So in total it can 
take close to 7 MBytes of storage space. It looks to me like this is 
going to be an overkill because:

1) We are probably going to use just a small subset of these icons
2) We are going to add hundreds of icon files in our CVS repo making it 
much more heavy to checkout.

Another point that came to my mind is that we have not yet decided about 
the GUI toolkit(s) we are going to use, except may be FOX to start with. 
Whatever GUI toolkit we decide to use it is very likely to come with a 
set of predefined icons I guess.

Toi summarize my recommendation would be to delay the import of icons in 
the CVS repo until we have a clearer idea of what we want to do with it.

However if you think it's the right time to use the Slick Icons from KDE 
then I would recommend that we add them to the CVS repo one by one when 
we need them and not add them globally. We won't use the "Vendor 
branches" import mechanism as we do for Ruby add-on modules but I don;t 
think it's a big deal.

Comments?

Laurent