On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:13:46PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2008 15:03:59 Bill Allombert wrote: > > > This is done on purpose. This allow desktop envirnonment to use separate > > icons for debian menu entries and other entries. Changing the names > > would break GNOME and KDE3. > > > > Furthermore there is no one-to-one mapping between debian sections and > > other sections, so the proposal is not feasible. > > > > > for example, the debian-games.directory should reference > > > Icon=applications-games and not Icon=debian-games > > > > > > Standardizing on the xdg icon spec is probably good. > > > > > > Table 5. Standard Category Icons, > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest > > >.html as this is what's expected to be available in the icon themes in > > > debian. and maybe from time to time look at other icons if there is > > > something not covering completely. But the current debian-* is nowhere to > > > be found. > > > > We use debian-* specifically to avoid a name clash with this > > specification. > > But the main point is still: no one is actually *providing* the debian-* > icons. and especially not amongst the "fall back" themes in the desktop > environments. > > In my K menu, I either get questionmark icons or "blue folders" as the icon > for these.
Then KDE4 needs to be fixed. GNOME in etch provides icons for sections fine. > Is your expectation that the artists magically should create these icons in > their themes, or that the debian icon theme maintaitners should copy/symlink > these icon names to something or that the debian icon theme maintainers > should > create the icons? > > I can't believe that it is expected to be shown with the default "no icon" > icon. The point I try to get across is that this issue should not be fixed in menu-xdg but on the Desktop environment or themes. If KDE4 or a Debian theme want to alias Icon=debian-games to Icon=applications-games, I am fine with that, but this is independent of menu-xdg. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
