[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] hicolor-icon-theme: new package
Eric Le Bihan
eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr
Tue Oct 7 12:25:15 UTC 2014
Hi!
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Eric Le Bihan,
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:21:10 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> > This new package provides Freedesktop Hicolor icon theme.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr>
> > ---
> > package/Config.in | 1 +
> > package/hicolor-icon-theme/Config.in | 4 ++++
> > package/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme.mk | 12 ++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 package/hicolor-icon-theme/Config.in
> > create mode 100644 package/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme.mk
>
> I'm a bit confused by what this package does: it doesn't contain
> anything, and does not install anything except a huge number of
> directories (empty) in usr/share/icons/. Is this the intended behavior?
> I would have expected an icon theme to install some .svg or .png files,
> no?
The hicolor icon theme is the *fallback* icon theme. As explained in the
specifications [1], this theme is required to have a place for third-party
applications to install their icons. If a icon is not found in the current
theme, then hicolor is the theme to look into.
So the package just installs a directory structure as well as an index.
I added it to avoid some warnings when executing the gtk3-demo application.
When I'll provide a patch bumping libgtk3 to 3.14, I will also provide a
package for adwaita-icon-theme, which is a true icon theme, weighting 18 MB!
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
Best regards,
ELB
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