On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 07:41 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 7:20 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think updating the hicolor-icon-theme package every time we add a new app to > > Fedora, or any time such an app changes its icon, is somewhere beyond impractical. > > I'm not sure I understand the value of icons when searching for > applications that you haven't already installed. But perhaps there is > value in using icons for updates. My reasoning is, most people should > have icon awareness for applications they use a lot. Well, one benefit is this use case: o User installs $app o User looks in the menus to try to run $app Having the icon the user saw when he installed the app be the same as the one in the menus would be a nice win. IIRC, there (is/was?) an Ubuntu tool that trolled the packages for .desktop files and used the icon from that. I don't know the exact details, but it must've been an offline process. This wouldn't of course work for packages that don't have a .desktop file, but then of course they wouldn't appear in the menus either. > So is there a compromise here. Would it be worth embedding an icon > name into repodata for a package, and if they icon exists on the > system then the gui tools will use the icon in reference to a package > update? But I don't know how you would drive that information into > the repodata Is that something packagedb would have to do? For > applications not already on the system, an icon representing the comps > group or rpm group for which the package belongs is perhaps pulled > from the hi-color set on system and displayed instead? I think that's about what Jakub was suggesting, actually. > But the underlying question that I cannot answer is if there is a real > benefit to exposing icons at all. I'm not sure there is. And even if > there is, I'm not sure its worth the complexity of implementing it. I think there would be a lot of value in it, but at the same time, implementation is non-trivial. -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
