From 8b5c1688974c57f7a7b6811af9db2e4733dde8cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Cullmann Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 16:59:40 +0200 Subject: more drafting --- content/posts/kde-applications-and-icons/index.md | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/posts/kde-applications-and-icons/index.md b/content/posts/kde-applications-and-icons/index.md index dd49989..af204fd 100644 --- a/content/posts/kde-applications-and-icons/index.md +++ b/content/posts/kde-applications-and-icons/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "KDE Applications & Icons" date: 2024-05-11T00:36:00+02:00 -draft: false +draft: true categories: [kde] tags: [kde] url: /posts/kde-applications-and-icons/ @@ -26,12 +26,20 @@ Many of this applications not just aim to work well on Linux & BSD or other open The above applications are part of the KDE Gear releases, but the described issues and solutions naturally are not restricted to stuff released with that. -Therefore, all talked about in this post is only interesting for such applications. +What most of these applications have in common is that they rely on rather large parts of our Frameworks. +With that they depend at least indirectly on an icon set that covers large parts of what our default icon set Breeze provides. +Even if you use no icons from that icon set yourself in your application, just using the standard actions or many widgets/dialogs from Frameworks will rely on some subset of Breeze. -## My Icons are fine +## The great Divider, your Desktop or Platform +When talking about the current situation of icons that depends largely on the desktop or platform you are running the KDE application on. + +Let's take a look at some (I for sure miss some that are common or loved, that doesn't mean I disregard them, I just want to limit the scope). + +### KDE Plasma (on Linux/BSD with Wayland/X11) If you just aim to run on the KDE Plasma desktop with your Qt and KDE Frameworks based application, all is fine with icons, there is no problem. + The KDE project did their job, at least for Kate I never did have any issues with icons on Plasma. -- cgit v1.2.3