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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
