On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 10:04 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Hey, > > we are merging gnom-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic into a > single icon theme. It will be available under the name > adwaita-icon-theme. This will affect both jhbuild modulesets and > distro packages, so I'm sending this heads-up to give you some advance > warning. In jhbuild, things may be in a bit of flux until all > dependencies in modules have been straightened out. > > The reason for this change is to make things more simple and reliable. > With our current use, symbolic icons are simply not an optional add-on > anymore, but an integral part of the user experience. By making it > part of the single icon theme, we avoid a whole class of 'broken UX' > cases that happen when somebody forgets to install or removes the > symbolic icons.
Two questions: - Why was the name change necessary (rather than simply merging the symbolic variant into gnome-icon-theme and carrying on with that name)? - Will gnome-themes-standard also change name? Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
