[Mageia-dev] hicolor-icon-theme question

Tue Feb 21 10:41:23 CET 2012

'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
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