Hi,

xdg-icon-resource requires that the (source) icon has vendor-prefix and turns around copies the icon to a destination file without the vendor-prefix -- in fact, using only MIME type as icon file name. This creates bigger icon name conflicts. Is that a design decision or a bug?

So, an icon likes hxplay-mime-video-ogg-48x48.png would be installed as video-ogg.png (with symbolic link of gnome-mime-video-ogg.png to it). That is undesirable to me. Documentation says nothing about behavior like this, leaving developers reading through the scripts to figure out if the scripts are doing what is expected (if what is expected is understood at all). So, xdg-utils doesn't make life easier as it first appeared to be. (If it is documented clearly, it could be a different story.)

Also, xdg-icon-resource doesn't provide an option to create only symbolic links back to icons in application installation directory.

Any comment if xdg-icon-resource is right or wrong? Was it done that way to accommodate how KDE worked? (Just speculating...)

Thanks.


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Daniel Yek

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