application icon locations and cache update

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 16:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:48 -0800, Eric Smith wrote:
> >> 1)  Is putting the icon into /usr/share/pixmap OK?  
> 
> > Not really. That dir is obsolescent, effectively. I'm not sure if we'll
> > ever manage to throw it away, but if you have the opportunity to control
> > icon deployment for an app, it's really best to use the /usr/share/icons
> > hierarchy, as it provides a lot of advantages over the 'dump a single
> > picture in one huge directory' model.
> 
> Now I'm really confused, because I received the opposite advice a couple
> of years ago, cf unixODBC.spec:
> 
> * Fri Jun 13 2008 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2.2.12-8
> - Install icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, not /usr/share/icons as this package
>   has historically done; the former is considered correct.
> 
> Digging further, the reason I changed it is because Red Hat's rpmdiff
> tool whinged about the previous placement.  Somebody is not on the right
> page here.

I'm going to say it's rpmdiff. /usr/share/pixmaps is definitely older
than the icon theme spec, and the icon theme spec is explicitly intended
to sort out various shortcomings in the 'just put a single bitmap-type
image file in /usr/share/pixmaps' method.

It is always a distinct possibility that I could be wrong, of course,
and if that's the case I'm sure someone will point it out ASAP. :)
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