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.
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