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Title: Don't hard-depend on humanity-icon-theme Status in GNOME Icon Theme: New Status in software-center package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: software-center depends on humanity-icon-theme which adds a few MB to the .iso size for flavors like Xubuntu or Ubuntu GNOME which ship a different theme by default. This is also an issue for Debian which packages software-center but not humanity-icon-theme yet. softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/utils.py has this note # add the humanity icon theme to the iconpath, as not all icon # themes contain all the icons we need # this *shouldn't* lead to any performance regressions path = '/usr/share/icons/Humanity' A quick grep shows at a minimum these hard-coded icons as well: softwarecenter/ui/qml/SearchBox.qml: source: "file:///usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/16/edit-find.svg" softwarecenter/ui/qml/SearchBox.qml: source: "file:///usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/16/edit-clear.svg" softwarecenter/ui/qml/pkglist.py: path = "/usr/share/icons/Humanity/categories/32/applications-other.svg" Those files should not be hard-coded as they are shipped by many icon themes such as gnome-icon-theme. Even the HighContrast theme which is included in Ubuntu by default ships those icons. I believe you are hurting accessibility by not allowing the HighContrast theme to provide those icons. The problem with hard-coding an icon theme is that it is a hack, a workaround to improve things for one app but making things more difficult for app developers (since they'll have to figure out similar hacks...which will cause problems if they want their apps to work on other distros as well) and theme developers who have to be aware of these issues. If there are icons that need to be available for all themes, please ship them in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ instead. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-2.7-generic 3.9.3 Uname: Linux 3.9.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 2 11:11:51 2013 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-07 (25 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-icon-theme/+bug/1186751/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
