On 2/4/06, Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The latest gnome-icon-theme release has removed the "gnome-spinner" and
> "gnome-spinner-rest" themed icons, causing breakage in (at least)
> epiphany, nautilus, gedit and beagle. Other people have told me that
> other removed icons also cause problems in nautilus and deskbar-applet.
> This removal needs to be reverted.

Do you have a list of those other removed icons ?

> The new g-i-t has already been discussed here,
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-January/msg00302.html, 
> but insufficient emphasis seems to have been made about backward 
> compatibility. While participants have asked about how to upgrade their apps, 
> we should instead ask what happens when the user upgrades g-i-t, but does not 
> simultaneously upgrade all his apps (apps which may not be maintained 
> anymore, even!).
>
> Arguably the icon names provided by gnome desktop's gnome-icon-theme are
> part of some sort of ABI; should they therefore part of our ABI
> stability guarantee?

Yes, at least we should avoid shooting our own foot by removing icon names that
are in active use by gnome applications. Time to revert to
gnome-icon-theme 2.12 ?

Matthias
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