On 2012-01-11, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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].)
>
This would forbid desktop environment to pick up more appropriate format
(e.g. SVG) and made other icon variants useless just vasting a space.
If there is an environment having problems to walk
/usr/share/{icons,pixmaps} correctly, then the enviroment should be
fixed and not to penalize other environments.
-- Petr
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