On 2012-03-05, Fernando Lemos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After a brief discussion in debian-mentors[1], Paul Wise suggested
> that we might need a virtual package for icon themes that adhere to
> the FreeDesktop.org icon naming spec[2].
In theory, I think it is a great idea, in practice I do se a bit of
issues ...
>
> The problem I'm trying to solve is that packages currently need to
> express dependency relations on any of a number of icon themes that
> provide the necessary icons. As an example, the package arista depends
> on:
>
> gnome-icon-theme |
> gnome-icon-theme-gartoon |
> gnome-icon-theme-nuovo |
> gnome-icon-theme-yasis |
> lxde-icon-theme |
> moblin-icon-theme |
> tango-icon-theme |
> gnome-themes-more |
> gnome-accessibility-themes
| oxygen-icon-theme
> More specifically, the advice I'm looking for at the moment is:
>
> * Does anyone see any problems with using virtual packages for this?
There is a problem with different kinds of completeness of the icon
themes.
I tried my KDE Plasma Desktop with the faenza icon theme at once and I
I for many things got the most basic icon where I actually expected
different ones.
>
> * Suggestions on how we should name the virtual package
>
> Paul suggested "fd-icon-theme" or "freedesktop-icon-theme". I'm okay
> with either.
fdo-icon-theme or freedesktop-icon-theme
/Sune
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