On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:22 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:49 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: > > Listen, PackageKit displays unuseful icons in his main package > > browsing component. > > Replacing them with appropriate icons from icon theme would be some > > improvement. > > Well, FYI, the purpose of that particular column in the UI at the moment > is 'is the package installed'. The icons used are pretty bad, and the > whole UI is very much up for debate. Totally. I want to do something separate like gnome-app-install that lets a new user just point and click. > I agree with you that there would be some value in adding the icons. Agreed. > But the implementation is > non-trivial. I think the first step would be to get an 'icon' field > added to the package metadata files that yum uses. However, if the icon > field is the actual .png data, that makes the metadata files much > bigger. Much, much bigger. > If the icon field is a name or label, then that label has to > match something already on the system. It wouldn't be useful for > packages that aren't installed yet because the icon data is...in the > package. Sure, but we could ship a packagekit-icons package, although that sucks as it requires constant rebuilding as others have pointed out. > So, I agree that it would be better, but it's non-trivial to do. If you are interested solving this, please jump on the packagekit mailinglist. See http://www.packagekit.org for details. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
