On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 14:24 -0700, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: > Bill Nottingham 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. > > > > I agree that neither of those are good solutions, but there is another > option. > > Currently, the icons reside in each package and the desktop entry file > (also in the individual packages) is used to associate the package with > the icon. > > Why couldn't devel packages (and others without desktop entry files) > follow a similar approach containing the icon and association? I think the problem then is you don't see the icon for the package until you've installed the package. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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