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| author | Jakub Steiner <jimmac@gmail.com> | 2021-06-29 12:27:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakub Steiner <jimmac@gmail.com> | 2021-06-29 12:27:33 +0200 |
| commit | f10caaf68b7df1bff7662d1345cb3fc0e4b3256c (patch) | |
| tree | 58b47aa3b179688f75e9faf21da77dde01dc8299 /README.md | |
| parent | ff49f73f220a70afe1a7ab5d5f043ff71dcc2f98 (diff) | |
| download | adwaita-icon-theme-f10caaf68b7df1bff7662d1345cb3fc0e4b3256c.tar.gz | |
symbolic: no new icons default policy
- NO is the default answer (as opposed to icon-development-kit)
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@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ If you're a core GNOME application maintainer and you have an icon need that bri For an up to date guide on how to use and how to design GNOME style icons, see the [GNOME User Interface Guidelines](https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/icons-and-artwork.html.en). ## Building and Contributing to Adwaita -Symbolic icons are no longer maintained using hand rolled ruby script and inkscape to render them out, but instead shares the same workflow as 3rd party symbolics, the icon [Devkit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/icon-development-kit). +Symbolic icons are no longer maintained using hand rolled ruby script and inkscape to render them out, but instead shares the same workflow as 3rd party symbolics, the [icon devkit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/icon-development-kit). -While many legacy symbolics only live as the exported individual SVGS in `Adwaita/scalable/`, the new additions and replacements are maintained in `src/symbolic/core.svg`. The contexts are [no longer used](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/73) and all icons go into `actions`. Please refer to the [Devkit guidelines]() on how to structure the metadata. +While many legacy symbolics only live as the exported individual SVGS in `Adwaita/scalable/`, the replacements are maintained in `src/symbolic/core.svg`. The contexts are [no longer used](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/73) and all icons go into `actions`. Please refer to the [Devkit guidelines]() on how to structure the metadata. +Do note that no new additions should be made unless very thoroughly discussed. *a-i-t* is the wrong way to reuse icon assets (no API, false promise of stability). ### Recoloring The color of the icon set is defined at runtime by the gtk theme. Every single icon from the set is actually embedded inside an xml container that has a stylesheet overriding the colors. |