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Icons

Icon Defaults

Guidelines

Compatibility with the system settings

• Respect the system settings for icons. Your application may provide its own icon theme, but it must default to the current system icon theme.

• Don't use hard-coded icon sizes. Application specific icon size settings should be relative to the global settings.
• Make sure icon effects defined in the system settings can be properly applied to your application icons (e.g. monochrome).

Special icons

If you need to include your own icons which are not in the default icon set, follow these steps:

1. Assign names in accordance to the freedesktop.org icon naming scheme (http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html).
2. Open an icon request by adding it to the Spreadsheet in SVN (playground/artwork/Oxygen/docs/icons.ods). The artists are going to create the icons and check them in to svn, considering your icon names. If you already have an icon or can't wait for the artists to create one, simply check the icon in to svn.

Accessibility Notes

Is is important both to achieve consistency among the various KDE applications and to ensure that accessibility related icon settings can take effect. Many applications use icons or icon-like pictures that avoid the KDE system settings for icon themes. This makes it impossible to customize them according to the users preferences and needs.

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