Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-20 Thread Björn Persson
Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem? > > It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend > > on a package simply for the provision of the directory... > > There are also all the subdirectories

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Adam Williamson wrote: > Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem? > It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend > on a package simply for the provision of the directory... I agree. -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: > Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem? > It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend > on a package simply for the provision of the directory... There are also all the subdirectories such as /usr/share/icons/hicol

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 16:03 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 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 wiki does in

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> 1. If installing icons into in to /usr/share/pixmaps is indeed >> deprecated. > > It's not installing into /usr/share/pixmaps which is deprecated, but the > whole concept of unthemed, fixed-size icons. > >> Then we need

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
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 t

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Shaw wrote: > 1. If installing icons into in to /usr/share/pixmaps is indeed > deprecated. It's not installing into /usr/share/pixmaps which is deprecated, but the whole concept of unthemed, fixed-size icons. > Then we need to update the packaging guidelines for the Desktop Files > secti

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Shaw wrote: > Nowhere did I suggest that the "Short name without extension" example > should be removed, only that the full pathname example should be > updated to use /usr/share/icon/hicolor over /usr/share/pixmaps. The point is that it makes no sense whatsoever to reference /usr/share/ic

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: > On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: >>> On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: 1. If installing icons into in to /usr/share/pixmaps is indeed deprecated. Then we need to update the

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: >> On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> 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].

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: > On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: >> 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

Re: Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Petr Pisar
On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw wrote: > 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

Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Shaw
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 t