'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/12 09:04 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:30:24AM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> What is the right policy of using this package? Is it really needed? > > Yes, see http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme. > > Ignore the name, historical thing. Basically all icons are based upon > this theme. Somewhat proper name might be freedesktop-icon-theme or > something.
Yeah it would be kinda nice to rename it to freedesktop-icon-theme and then symlink /usr/share/icons/freedesktop to /usr/share/icons/hicolor... then gradually transition all apps using hicolor to use freedesktop instead. This would be the "right" thing to do but I suspect that the gains are not worth the pains... it would certainly clarify things a bit tho'. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
