On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:22:34AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > Hmm.. Where to start. A recent discussion[1] and package review got me > thinking. I'll divide this into two problems/proposals. > > 1. If installing icons into in to /usr/share/pixmaps is indeed > deprecated. Then we need to update the packaging guidelines for the > Desktop Files section[2]. In the "Icon tag in Desktop Files" section > it explicitly shows a full path to an icon file in /usr/share/pixmaps. > While not intended as a guideline, it should be revised to showing a > full path to an icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor (probably in the > 48x48 directory since it's the minimum requirement[3].) > > 2. It may even be better to create a separate section for icons. > Because the guidelines require us to "Requires:" a package when we > install a file into a directory that the package does not own, > theoretically all packages that install icons into > /usr/share/icons/hicolor need to "Requires: hicolor-icon-theme". This > should probably be explained more directly. > > Thanks, > Richard > > [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/160252.html > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Desktop_files > [3] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons > If you'd like to propose a new guideline/change to the existing one, that would be great. It sounds like the consensus here for #1 is to deprecate absolute paths. And to explain why the Requires are needed for #2. The way to propose a change is to write up a draft on the wiki and then open a ticket for the FPC to look at it on https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ Thanks, -Toshio
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