packaging: new spec filed idea

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

2008/1/18, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:22 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:49 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> > > Listen, PackageKit displays unuseful icons in his main package
> > > browsing component.
> > > Replacing them with appropriate icons from icon theme would be some
> > > improvement.
> >
> > Well, FYI, the purpose of that particular column in the UI at the moment
> > is 'is the package installed'.  The icons used are pretty bad, and the
> > whole UI is very much up for debate.
>
> Totally. I want to do something separate like gnome-app-install that
> lets a new user just point and click.
>
> > I agree with you that there would be some value in adding the icons.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > But the implementation is
> > non-trivial.  I think the first step would be to get an 'icon' field
> > added to the package metadata files that yum uses.  However, if the icon
> > field is the actual .png data, that makes the metadata files much
> > bigger.
>
> Much, much bigger.
>
> > If the icon field is a name or label, then that label has to
> > match something already on the system.  It wouldn't be useful for
> > packages that aren't installed yet because the icon data is...in the
> > package.
>
> Sure, but we could ship a packagekit-icons package, although that sucks
> as it requires constant rebuilding as others have pointed out.
>
> > So, I agree that it would be better, but it's non-trivial to do.
>
> If you are interested solving this, please jump on the packagekit
> mailinglist. See http://www.packagekit.org for details.
>
> Richard.
>
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Should I jump to the PK's mailing list, if RPM doesn't provide "Icon: "
field?

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Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
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