So, resuming ... the name of the stock icons will change to the freedesktop specification names. Explanation in[0]. [0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub Sex, 2013-12-13 às 11:52 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi escreveu: > hi; > > On 13 December 2013 08:15, John Emmas <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2013, at 20:31, Luis Matos wrote: > > > >> Just a rain check, > >> > >> In the future, images are not shipped in file (file.svg/file.png) but > >> still included in gtk (library)? Or not shipped at all? > > GTK 3.x still ships icons for GtkStock identifiers, and will continue > to do so until GtkStock is removed, in the next API/ABI break. > > it is strongly recommended *not* to use stock icons, but to use named > icons from the icon theme instead: those icons are actively > maintained, they have proper names, and allow fallback through > specificity, e.g. if the application requests the icon named > `foo-bar-baz` and it is not found, `foo-bar` and `foo` will also be > checked. the icon naming specification is a freedesktop.org > specification available here: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html > > > Two more questions if I may.... > > > > 1) What are the ".svg" files? I noticed them during my testing but I didn't manage to figure out what they're used for. > > SVG is scalable vector graphics, a vector graphics file format: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics > > inside icon themes SVG is used for scalable icons and, more recently, > for symbolic icons that are meant to be colourised parametrically > (e.g. signal strength and battery charge indicators). > > > 2) Why deprecate images for buttons and menus anyway? They seem to be widely supported by OS's and other programs / frameworks. What's the rationale for deprecating them in gtk+? > > images and buttons inside menus have not been deprecated: you can > still pack GtkImage widgets in buttons and menus, since both are > GtkContainers. it's pretty easy to do both programmatically and > through GtkBuilder (especially with the new builder templates). > > what has been deprecated (in GTK 3.x) are: > > • stock icons, because they don't conform to the icon naming > specification, and because they conflate both labels and images in > weird ways. the thread on gtk-devel-list is available here: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2013-July/msg00000.html > • the gtk-button-images and gtk-menu-images GtkSettings, because > they clobber the desired UI of the application developers and > designers through a toolkit-wide setting. > > as per usual with the G* stack, deprecation does not mean removal > until the next ABI break. in this case, GTK+ 4.0, which is currently > not planned to happen soon, and in any case will be (like any other > ABI/API break) parallel installable. > > ciao, > Emmanuele. > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
