PackageKit application icons

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 21:17:51 UTC 2009


Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. (rvinyard at cs.nmsu.edu) said: 
> Ahhh... I see that now, and they're already there.
> 
> It's a shame that's the only mechanism for adding icons. I'd like to see
> something other than cardboard boxes when looking for devel packages.

The problem is you'd either need to:

- include icons in the metadata (which gets very large, very fast)
- create a package that consists of all the icons that may be in
  the distro (which gets very messy to maintain, very fast)

Neither of these are particularly good solutions.

Bill




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