Hmm.. Where to start. A recent discussion[1] and package review got me thinking. I'll divide this into two problems/proposals.
1. 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].) 2. It may even be better to create a separate section for icons. Because the guidelines require us to "Requires:" a package when we install a file into a directory that the package does not own, theoretically all packages that install icons into /usr/share/icons/hicolor need to "Requires: hicolor-icon-theme". This should probably be explained more directly. Thanks, Richard [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/160252.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Desktop_files [3] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
