From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:36:28 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] hicolor-icon-theme: new package In-Reply-To: <20141007125535.GC4028@rmm-p1267483> References: <1411489271-26899-1-git-send-email-eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> <1411489271-26899-3-git-send-email-eric.le.bihan.dev@free.fr> <20141005232215.48f593d8@free-electrons.com> <20141007122515.GB4028@rmm-p1267483> <20141007142842.3c481ac5@free-electrons.com> <20141007125535.GC4028@rmm-p1267483> Message-ID: <20141007153628.5d104441@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com