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GNOME Decides to Ditch Drawings (Linux Journal)

GNOME Decides to Ditch Drawings (Linux Journal)

Posted Aug 4, 2009 22:04 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165)
Parent article: GNOME Decides to Ditch Drawings (Linux Journal)

In other news, KDE announced it will support animated MPEG4 icons for menus ...

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GNOME Decides to Ditch Drawings (Linux Journal)

Posted Aug 4, 2009 22:19 UTC (Tue) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]

Nah. We'll use Phonon to support video icons in any format supported by its pluggable backends, cross-platform.

Kidding aside, here's how it actually works in KDE:

- There's an option to enable/disable icons on buttons. It defaults to on, and applies regardless of the used style engine.

- Icons in menus are non-optional settings-wise, but I believe the style engine has the power to provide such an option / ignore menu icons.

(A style engine is a body of code implementing the rendering of interface elements, such as menus, buttons, frames, scrollbars, etc.)

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