On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:18:45 +0100
[email protected] wrote:

> 
> Should hicolor-icon-theme be mentioned as a requirement in the "Skin 
> Installation (Optional)" section?  If I compile the Blue skin (as per 
> instructions) and access gmplayer I receive the following:
> 
>      Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'mplayer.'  The 'hicolor' 
> theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.

Run time dependencies are a bit of a grey area. Sometimes they're
mentioned and sometimes not, e.g., you don't need to install Xorg
Server to install Gtk+ but Gtk+ is pretty useless without Xorg Server
and yet it's not mentioned on either of the Gtk+ pages. In general we
focus on compile time dependencies.

> I know little of MPlayer and installed only the Blue skin, but 
> installing hicolor-icon-theme fixed the problem and gmplayer executed 
> well.  hicolor-icon-theme is listed as Recommended in the gtk+ 
> documentation.

We tend to treat recommended deps the same as required deps, we expect
you to install them and if you don't, well, that's your decision.

Andy
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