[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] hicolor-icon-theme: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Eric Le Bihan,

On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:25:15 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> > 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.

Well, how can an empty thing be a fallback icon theme? That's kind of
weird.

Anyway, if you could update the help text to mention what it is
exactly, it'd be great. Just to clarify to the user that it's normal
for this package to not install anything except a bunch of empty
directories.

> I added it to avoid some warnings when executing the gtk3-demo application.

Sure, I certainly don't claim that it is unnecessary, I was just trying
to understand what was going on.

> 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!

Ouch. But all icons are present in multiple sizes, no? Are all sizes
needed?

Just looked at my /usr/share/icons on Ubuntu: 347 MB. Ouch.

Thanks,

Thomas
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