Hi, During that cycle a lot of icons from gnome-icon-theme have been moved from hicolor to gnome, that has for effect to cause different sort of breakages, by example: - it breaks GNOME applications for people using them with a non-using-GNOME theme (some time ago an evolution user using xfce was complaining that after updating most of the icons are broken for him. a kubuntu maintainer has just been reporting a GNOME application crashing on KDE with crystal icon theme because gnome-settings-default-applications has been moved to gnome theme) - when login to GNOME, if gnome-panel (with some launchers using gnome icons like web-browser) starts before having gnome-settings-daemon applying the icon theme you get error dialog about the icons beeing not found
I've opened http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330061 about that. The maintainer argue that installing icons to hicolor is wrong. So what should applications do? Stop using icons from gnome-icon-theme? Accept to be broken for people running GNOME applications from KDE by example? That seems to be a compability breakage, quite a lot of applications are actually using icons which used to be shipped to hicolor and will have issues now. GTK has a xsetting since 2.8.10 (discussed on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325546) to set an another fallback before hicolor which can act as a workaround, but since no other desktop set it at the moment it doesn't change the frustation for users to have things broken on upgrade Any opinion on the topic? Cheers, Sebastien Bacher _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list