[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 14:55:36 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:

> > > 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?
> 
> The adwaita-icon-theme package provides icons which sizes are 16x16, 24x24,
> 32x32, 48x48, 256x256 and of course some SVG ones. On the target its takes 20
> MB of storage.
> 
> I'm no expert in icon loading, but it looks like if the requested size is not
> found, then a smaller one is selected, upscaling is applied and you get
> blurry icons.
> 
> Should I provide an option in the configuration menu to install only specific
> sizes, or should removing the unwanted icons be left to the user (via
> post-build script)?

I'm not sure. As long as we can build libgtk3 without those icons, I
think we can just keep them all. Anyway, this is something that can be
improved at a later point if needed.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
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