On 2014-05-06 08:45, Marcel Korpel wrote:
Hi all,
I already asked this at the forums, but didn't get an answer yet, so
I'll re-explain my question(s) here. I just want to master creating
packages with .desktop files and icon theme, but I think what I find
and what is suggested differ significantly.
In the GNOME Package Guidelines there's a section about .desktop files
and the like. [1] It states that running
update-desktop-database -q
during post_install and post_remove is recommended (note that it
doesn't state it's *required*). However, the Eclipse package doesn't
do that. [2]
Have you bothered finding out what that command actually does? Once you
do, you'd see that it's useless in this case.
It even doesn't depend on hicolor-icon-theme, as is
required when issuing
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
during post_install (namcap didn't complain about this dependency, as
it usually does, like about mars-mips: [3]
mars-mips E: Files in /usr/share/icons/hicolor but no call to
gtk-update-icon-cache or xdg-icon-resource to update the icon cache
(there are other issues with that package, about which I'll inform the
package maintainer at a later moment)).
On a second thought, issuing
$ pacman -Qo gtk-update-icon-cache
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache is owned by gtk-update-icon-cache
2.24.23-1
So shouldn't those packages with an icon theme depend on
gtk-update-icon-cache instead of just on hicolor-icon-theme?
eclipse depends on gtk2, which depends on gtk-update-icon-cache, which
depends on hicolor-icon-theme. The deps are already satisfied, which is
why namcap didn't complain.
Is the Eclipse package wrong or is the Wiki not complete (also note
that the recommended install file of gedit [4] isn't that complete: it
doesn't contain a call to gtk-update-icon-cache as it doesn't contain
a hicolor icon theme; perhaps we should look for another example)?
When the former is the case, I'll file a bug report. Else, please
explain to me what to do with icon themes and .desktop files.
If it doesn't install an icon, there's obviously no need to call
gtk-update-icon-cache.
I hope I expressed myself clearly.
Regards,
Marcel
[1]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Package_Guidelines#.desktop_files
[2]
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/eclipse/repos/extra-x86_64
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mars-mips/
[4]
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/gedit.install?h=packages/gedit
