AppStream: dealing with icons

[Pavol Rusnak]

On 29/01/11 15:54, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> I like Richard's proposal.
> 
> I would separate the mechanics of appdata-icons.tar.bz2 from the xml
> description a bit.
> 
> This is, the appdata-icons tarball is downloaded by the package manager
> (or some hook/plugin of it) either by doing a HEAD request or because
> the appdata.xml mentions somewhere that there is one icon tarball present.
> 
> Once that is downloaded and exploded, the xml could specify
> 
> <icon type="cached">repoid/22x22/name.png</icon>
> 
> I think you named this "relative"....? is this what you mean with relative?
> 
> So as I can see we support types:
> 
> url, stock (tango installed icon), cached (from the tarball), local
> (full path)

This seems fine to me. I updated appdata.xsd schema in the resources
repo. But I think size should not be present in the appdata.xml. It's up
to each client to decide which sizes to use ...

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