gnome-icon-theme: Where have all the icons gone?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 21:34 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:


> 5717 is still a lot less than 6597 (2.28.0-1) and this is the source of
> bugs like this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573811

Yeah, symlinks are relatively easy to put back. But if the target went
missing, there's not much I can do. And yes, this cleanup effort
unfortunately landed very late in the 2.30 cycle, and has affected not
just your apps, but GNOME as well.

Anyway, I fully support the effort of the artists behind
gnome-icon-theme. Nobody can support an entirely undocumented and fuzzy
api of 6000+ names and hope to a) ever get another icon theme completed
or b) keep their sanity.

I've asked upstream to put out a clear statement early in the 2.31 cycle
(ie NOW) that henceforth only the icon names guaranteed by the
icon-naming spec can be relied on from gnome-icon-theme. And I am
considering splitting off a -legacy package from gnome-icon-theme in
rawhide, containing all the legacy symlinks.

Part of the complication here is that the integration of the GTK+ stock
system with icon themes currently still relies on these 'legacy'
symlinks as well. For that, see 
http://live.gnome.org/GtkNamingSpecInvestigation


Matthias