hi! On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:39:47PM -0700, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:01:55PM +0200, Gero Treuner wrote: [...] > > I created a basic gradio.desktop file (works when placed in the > > directory /usr/share/applications here) and an icon file gradio.png > > (works when placed in the drirectory /usr/share/pixmaps here). > > > > Please include it in the sources and the debian package. > > This is certainly appropriate for distribution inclusion, but I don't > consider it the application's responsibility to deliver icons or > window manager menu data. There are two main reasons: First, gnome is > one of an almost infinite number of user interface environments; > delivering this kind of data for all of them in the varied formats and > locations they consume would be impractical or impossible, and since > the application itself neither requires nor uses any WM or user > interface environment, there's no reason to play favourites. Second, > the application should not determine its advertisement to the user; > the standard means of exposing a program's availability is the > combination of setting the execute bit and locating it in a known > directory so that a user may use his or her shell's PATH mechanism to > invoke it easily. The makefile included in the source has an install > target which fulfills those two requirements. Any other advertisement > is at the discretion of the user, administrator, and/or distribution. > > For these reasons, the source distribution will not include this or > any similar work. I'm happy to include a link to it from the GRadio > page, however, so that users who wish to take advantage of it can do > so.
I fully agree with applications being not responsible of advertising and window managers. I by myself most often start programs from shells. Most distributions include windows managers and many people use one of them today. It's the job of the distributors to care about that. But their life is much easier if they already have an icon for an application they can use doing this job, and this way the icon is likely to look common among all distributions. Therefore I think it is a good idea to add a link on the GRadio page, where people looking for it will find it. Thanks. Gero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
