hardcoded icon size

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xmpp service manager and nickname changing interface hardcode 16x16 icons
on buttons. that's inappropriate.

theme-wide icon size should be used.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2008 at 11:05

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Yeah this is going to become more and more apparent as we move forward and have 
more
and more icons.

We had decided to define icons for our whole app because we didn't want to 
provide
half Tango icons, and the other half using some other theme from the users PC. 
And
that people would just create themes for whatever they wanna use.

But now, more and more users expect to see their theme icons, which will mean 
the
entire interface will be a mix match up of icons.

I personal dislike the idea...

Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2008 at 2:55

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you can request new icon upstream (in freedesktop.org or somewhere) and the 
icon will
have chance to appear in icon themes ;) .

till now you can use your own images for icons which do not appear in icon 
themes and
for others you should use icon theme.

that's not your business if someone uses tango or not ;) .

all the apps provide some icons in tango style, and they don't care.

PS this was about icon sizes, not icons themselves.

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2008 at 4:14

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I have idea. look.

icon theme: [system icon theme  V]
             tango
             nuvola
             crystal
             etc.

"system icon theme" is half PC and half own pixmap-based.

others are just icon themes.

is is possible?

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2008 at 4:17

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That is an interesting idea.. paul what do you think?

Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2008 at 3:58

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I think it should be very easy to allow different icon themes thanks to 
IconUtility,
the most tricky one will be making use of system icons, but I'm sure that can 
be done
with a custom icon loader to keep IconUtility happy.

I'm all for fitting in with the system where possible :)

Original comment by paulburt...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2008 at 4:04

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I hope it's possible and easy to do so you can implement this and be happy, 
that you
made interface more elastic :) .

If you're interested in implementing this, think about Adium themes. they 
provide
"service icons" (icons for protocols), "status icons" (available, etc, in 
roster) and
dock icons (main app icon), but the last isn't probably easy to change (it would
require changing icon in filesystem [1]).

[1] path to galaxium icon could be a symlink and every icon in galaxium that you
provide should be contained in "system" theme, so other theme changes symlink 
for
"dock icon" (app icon).

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2008 at 4:06

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I've already looked at adium icon themes before, and I'm sure I can add them to 
the
AdiumThemes addin fairly easily. At some point I'm going to rewrite the package
handling of AdiumThemes and allow the same code to load different types of 
package,
then hand out the contents to classes that know how to use them through 
mono.addins.

(Then at some point it would even be possible to write an addin to display an 
adium
style contact list, although it would be a separate entity to the main window)

Original comment by paulburt...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2008 at 4:19

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know what? I knew, that you rule :) .

galaxium from beginning was interesting and kinda sexy :) .

Original comment by jakub.ru...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2008 at 4:21

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This issue isn't really something we want to deal with in the near future. I'm 
going
to close it as there are much more important things going on.

Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 2:03

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