Applications missing from Fedora 23

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 24 September 2015 at 19:13, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:28:44AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> >> postbooks: specified icon '/usr/share/postbooks/images/icon128x32.png'
> >> does not exist
> > The png is in the rpm... What's going on here?
> 
> It's not in a standard search path for icons:
> https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib#what-is-an-application says:
> 
>  - Icons MUST be installed in /usr/share/pixmaps/*,
> /usr/share/icons/*, /usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/*, or
> /usr/share/${app_name}/icons/*
> 
> The reason for that rule is two-fold:
> 
> * when we build the metadata we don't actually decompress all the rpm
> contents, just the parts we're interested in (makes building about 50x
> faster as lzma is sloooow)
> * when we have a sandboxed future icons will need to be a standard
> location rather than spread over /usr
> 
> In this case, it's probably enough to just add a symlink from
> /usr/share/postbooks/images/icon128x32.png to /usr/share/icons/ so
> that it gets extracted, although icon128x32.png doesn't sound terribly
> promising for a HiDPI icon.
Actually it's 128x128 pixels.

Thanks for the explanation.

Zbyszek