Proposal for update to packaging guidelines for icon files

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Jan 20 17:49:29 UTC 2012


Adam Williamson wrote:
> Would it make sense just to put the hicolor directory into filesystem?
> It seems silly to have every single graphical app in the distro depend
> on a package simply for the provision of the directory...

There are also all the subdirectories such as 
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/.

And the whole purpose of hicolor-icon-theme is to include those directories 
and the index.theme file.

        Kevin Kofler



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