On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 14:30 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
I just booted the latest Xfce nightly and I was shocked by the
massive
changes in gnome-icon-theme: Instead of 6597 icons as in F12,
gnome-icon-theme now only provides 2434 icons. This means that nearly
all of the icons are missing in Xfce, LXDE and many more applications.
I know the icon naming guidelines have changed a while back, but there
were symbolic links for backwards compatibility. Please bring them back.
It is already to late to fix the huge number of packages that are broken
now and the change was never announced to the other maintainers.
I'd like to kindly remind all maintainers of their responsibility to
"notify others_of_changes_that_may_affect_their_packages" [1]. This is
very important thing, there is a whole paragraph about it on the wiki
page. Please honor it.
I have two answers for you. A flippant one and a serious one. Since it
is the weekend, I'll start with the flippant one:
I'm surprised you haven't forked gnome-icon-theme yet and removed all
the symlink bloat yourself. Apparently, fighting bloat in your own
desktop is cool as long as you can rely on somebody elses bloat...
Now the more serious one: Your numbers are wrong.
[mclasen@planemask ~]$ rpm -ql gnome-icon-theme | wc -l
5717