On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:40 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > nautilus upstream didn't yet decide if it is right or not. They feel > > that a super-generic icon (e.g. text/x-generic) from the current theme > > might be better than a very specific icon in the hicolor fallback theme > > (e.g. application/x-geda-schematic). > > That reasoning makes absolutely no sense to me. Why would a > generic icon for text be better than an icon that represents what the > text file really is? "Does not compute" I will look through the e-mails > on this issue again to see if can make it compute. :)
Gnome / Nautilus is mad... provides a partial explanation. Actually, the case they are considering is where a particular theme has a restricted set of icons such as media/hard-disk (or whatever), and they would prefer to use that icon, from the current theme, than something like media/hard-disk-ata or media/hard-disk-holographic-cube from the fallback theme. IMO, this is the wrong way of implementing the fallback. If a theme derives from a particular fallback, it should either implement a superset of icons, implement a subset (deliberately allowing fallbacks to the other theme), or have some means to say: Provide media/hard-disk, AND: Provide a special placeholder media/hard-disk-ata, which indicates "doesn't exist" / no fallbacks, such that Nautilus will believe that the icon doesn't exist in this theme, OR the fallbacks. Symlinking to the desired generic icon would also be a neat way around this crap. I'll send another mail to nautilus-dev. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
