Bug 82537

Summary: icons are not shown despite they are available in other styles
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix>
Component: generalAssignee: Antonio Larrosa <larrosa>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eduardo Robles Elvira 2004-05-30 22:56:24 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.2)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

Many apps (Kolourpaint, digikam, apollon) has icons for 'hicolor' style, so that they put them in the 'hicolor' style directory. Nowadays, as KDE uses 'crystal' by default, the vast majority of users only can see a generic icon instead of the app custom ones, as the icons are not installed/available in 'crystal'.

I purpose that instead of showing that generic icons, KDE should automatically be a bit more smart, searching icons that are not available in current style in the in the other styles, and showing them whenever it's possible.

I don't know how preference among different styles with the same icosn available could be implemented; there are some styles that are more related to others, and if KDE could "know" it, that would be a good way.. but at least make something appear instead of that generic useless icons =)

PD: I apologise my bad english.
Comment 1 Eduardo Robles Elvira 2004-06-10 15:55:59 UTC 
I think that bug #82440 and bug #82487 are related to this problem.. aren't they?
Comment 2 Eduardo Robles Elvira 2004-08-04 14:31:33 UTC 
After editing the index.desktop file of the cfrystal theme I've seen that it includes: "Inherit=hicolor". So that was this bug about, and thus I'll just close it ;-).