URL: http://dot.kde.org/118
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From: Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt kde.org>
Dept: we-all-need-oxygen
Date: Monday 11/Jun/2007, 06:28
HIG Hunting Season: Icons
=========================
The great work of the Oxygen icon artists is a much
discussed and
anticipated part of KDE 4. The new icons now follow the
freedesktop.org
naming specification
[http://standards.freedesktop.org/i
con-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html]
which makes it easier to share icons between applications of
several
desktop environments. In the HIG hunt this week, we will
check that this
work lives up to its full potential by looking for missing
icons and
wrong uses. Read on for more details.
The most important part of the checklist is searching
for misused
or missing icons, both in the default icon theme Oxygen, and
in the
Monochrome icon theme needed for accessibility. A second
topic is
checking for use of the KDE system settings. Most
applications will use
the correct setting automatically via the KDE libraries, so
this is
mainly about corner case bugs.
One particular issue of the guidelines has been very
controversial
in the past (defaulting to an application-specific icon
theme in
Amarok). The HIG team is not interested in starting any
flamewars, so
please skip this issue when doing these checks. The
checklists are meant
as guidance for developers, not as laws.
Reporting Procedure
The procedure for reviewers is pretty simple:
You pick an application which is included in KDE 4 Alpha,
but not yet
reviewed by another person. See this wiki page
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=hig_hunting_se
ason] for
reference. You open a checklist and go through the checklist
items. For
each infringement you find, post a bug. In the title, write
"HIG" and
the number of the checklist item which is not met (e.g.
CL4/1.4). To
test for the existence of monochrome icons, make sure that
the
monochrome icons from the kde-accessibility module are
installed. Select
the icon theme in KControl, then restart KDE to ensure that
all
applications are aware of the new setting. On the wiki page
of the
checklist, add a section for the application you reviewed
and link all
bug reports you have created. Happy hunting!
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