Remove echo-icon-theme from fedora

[Dan Mashal]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Martin Sourada
<martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:31:24 -0800
> Dan Mashal wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Heiko Adams <heiko.adams at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'd request to remove the echo-icon-theme package from Fedora for
>> > several reasons:
>> > - it's missing support for xdg folders
>> > - there's no noteable developement action upstream (last monthly
>> > news is from february 2009)
>> > - the current version shipped by fedora is a nearly 5 years old git
>> > snapshot.
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Heiko Adams
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>>
>> +1
> I'm upstream. -1. While the development is currently rather stale I'm
> in the middle of transition from echo-icon-theme to echo-perspective and
> while the transition is in progress I still depend on the old echo.
> Some work in progress:
> http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.cz/2012/12/designing-echo-icons-again.html
>
> Plus, as I'm also a user of echo-icon-theme I would like to have it in
> repos ;-) I plan to add echo-perspective to repos when it has some
> basic coverage ready and retire echo-icon-perspective when all its
> icons are redesigned for echo-perspective (that's my current
> intention, in the past I was pondering with the idea of working on
> both).
>
> If that makes you happy, Heiko, it wouldn't be much of a problem for me
> to add a couple of symlinks to work-around the issue with xdg-folders. I
> don't see a terrible need for them to look different than plain
> folders...
>
> Martin
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It'd probably be in your best interest to close any 4+ year old trac
tickets and reply to whatever bugs you have open then.

Dan