On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holas, > > As you may have read in the minutes for the recent Artwork Meeting, > at http://live.gnome.org/ArtMeeting080329 , we have decided that the > best way to improve the usage of the Icon Naming Spec throughout the > desktop, is to avoid having the compatibility symlinks installed by > icon-naming-utils, during the development period. > > This works similar to how we disable fatal criticals for applications > via gnome-session. I have committed the changes to gnome-icon-theme > trunk to make this work. It simply checks that the minor version number > is not an even value, and disables the requirement and usage of the > icon-naming-utils script for odd valued minor version numbers. > > What this means for you, as a developer, is that your application may > "break" by having no icon, or showing the missing icon image from GTK+ > instead. If this occurs, you should file a bug against YOUR APPLICATION > and NOT AGAINST gnome-icon-theme. You may, however, add one of use > gnome-icon-theme developers to the CC: list for the bug, so that we may > help assess the problem, and provide direction and feedback for what > icon name to use instead. Before and after crops of screen shots will > be helpful attachments to the bug as well. > > This is to help expose problems in the desktop during the development > cycle in the same way we do with fatal critical errors now. The > compatibility links will be re-enabled in the final stable releases, > just as fatal criticals are disabled for them. > Good idea.
* A possible improvement Setup a mailing list for icon artists on gnome.org and let people put that email address on the cc of the bugreport. Jaap _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
