icon cache scriplet guideline update

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 19 20:11:37 UTC 2006


Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> Main problem *this* proposal is (trying to) address:
> The freedesktop.org icon spec only mandates 'touching' top-level icon 
> dir, but current packaging guidelines include toolkit-specific (gtk2) 
> cache implementation details.  Removing those details without addressing 
> related gtk2 RFE yields stale gtk2 icon cache.
> 
> I proposed keeping the exising gtk-update-icon-cache as an option for 
> icon scriptlets, and this was universally shot-down by the PC.  They 
> insisted on simplicity.
> 
> So, this led to option 2:
> Propose using only xdg-utils.  This simplifies the guidelines, uses 
> desktop-agnostic tools, and (virtually) fixes the gtk2 issue, since it 
> guarantees that the gtk2 icon cache is (should be!) kept current.

But this doesn't 'solve' anything, or 'simiplify' anything - it just
moves a touch into the shell script, and renames the command, and makes
things slower.

So, essentially, it boils down to an objection to the tool being named
'gtk2-...'?

Bill




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