On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009-01-28 at 16:17:51 -0500, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. (rvinyard@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> Ahhh... I see that now, and they're already there. >>> >>> It's a shame that's the only mechanism for adding icons. I'd like to see >>> something other than cardboard boxes when looking for devel packages. >> >> The problem is you'd either need to: >> >> - include icons in the metadata (which gets very large, very fast) >> - create a package that consists of all the icons that may be in >> the distro (which gets very messy to maintain, very fast) >> >> Neither of these are particularly good solutions. > > Well, we do have a PackageDB. Why couldn't we permit maintainers to go to: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/packagedb > > Then, on the page for the package (once logged in, of course), click on > the icon next to the package name (a question mark by default) and > upload an icon. Then, extend the PackageDB API such that PackageKit > tries to call out to PackageDB to get icons on a per package basis > (also, as a list of packages). Doesn't sound like a good idea. Unless we have packageDB mirrors. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
