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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