Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. But, aren't they currently harvesting them from the packages and desktop entries? Or, does pkg-application only show the icons for the packages I currently have installed? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
