Debian GUI Issues [was Re: Debian test errors]

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:05:53PM +0100, bojo42 wrote:

     Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 14:54 +0000 schrieb John Darrington:

     >     The other issue in Debian is related to the icon installation as PSPP
     >     installs /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache and there are some
     >     other packages which also ship that file. Probably no package should
     >     really ship it at all, as this is a very general location.
     > 
     > Yes.  It should not be shipped if it already exists.  Instead it should 
be 
     > updated in the post-inst stage
     
     I am taking a look into that, cause there should already be a common
     method to do so in Debian. But isn't there a way that benifits other
     distro in generell and am i right that you just use it to speed up the
     UI menu?

As a recall, this file was necessary to actually associate the icons with their
respective stock items - they didn't actually appear otherwise.  However, it's
a long time since I wrote that stuff so I could be mistaken.
     
     >     Would be also
     >     great if we can stop installing the 16x16 icons
     >     under /usr/share/icons/16x16/pspp as this is quite a uncommon place 
for
     >     package specific icons. Do you think you can fix that in Git?
     > 
     > Where would be a common place to put them?
     
     /usr/share/pspp/icons
     
     or 
     
     /usr/share/pspp/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions (or status, ...)
     
     Like above: they're just used inside the UI, right?
     
OK.  I'll look into a possible new location.

J'

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