cruft removal

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Nov 30 16:57:04 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Here is a list of some cruft removal tasks that I think we should tackle
> for F13:
> 
> - Get rid of old Bluecurve icons in fedora-icon-theme. This mainly
> affects the OpenOffice icons and the redhat-email and redhat-web icons
> which are used by htmlview. The easiest way forward here would be to
> simply change the Fedora metatheme to use Mist (or another icon theme)
> directly.
> 
> - Get rid of leftover cruft in redhat-menus. We still ship
> a /usr/share/desktop-menu-patches directory full of desktop files of
> which only two seem to still be used (by htmlview). Is anything besides
> htmlview still using desktop-menu-patches ?
> 
> - Get rid of htmlview. The script as been documented as deprecated since
> forever, and it really does not have any benefits over xdg-open or
> gvfs-open. It seems to get pulled in by gok (!) in my F12 installation.

These points are done now. xdg-open obsoletes htmlview, and I just built
redhat-menus without /usr/share-desktop-menu-patches and
fedora-icon-theme without Bluecurve-era icons. 

Let me know if anything breaks.


Matthias




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