On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com wrote:
On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Petr Pisar ppisar@redhat.com wrote:
On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
- 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/share/pixmaps. While not intended as a guideline, it should be revised to showing a full path to an icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor (probably in the 48x48 directory since it's the minimum requirement[3].)
This would forbid desktop environment to pick up more appropriate format (e.g. SVG) and made other icon variants useless just vasting a space.
I'm not sure I understand what your saying. A 48x48 icon is already a minimum requirement, regardless of my proposal. But I don't see how anything I proposed makes any other icon sizes useless.
If you put absolute path to icon file into desktop file, then desktop environment can use only this one exact icon file (you suggest 48×48 bitmap) for the application.
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.
Thanks, Richard