[Portland] Re: gtk-update-icon-cache problems.

[Vincent Untz]

Hi,

Le lundi 11 septembre 2006, à 12:24, Bastian, Waldo a écrit :
> Per Olofsson notices in
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8153
> > The script xdg-icon-resource tries to create a GTK icon cache when
> > installing icons. The problem here is that there might not have been
> an
> > icon cache there in the first place.
> >
> > Suppose then that another package installs an icon, but does not
> update
> > the icon cache (this happens frequently in Debian). Then GTK will not
> see
> > the new icon because it uses the outdated cache. Thus,
> xdg-icon-resource
> > breaks unrelated packages.
> >
> > My proposal for fixing this is to check if a cache exists before
> trying to
> > update it.
> 
> However, testing with Debian testing/Gnome 2.14 shows that
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor does not have an icons.cache (most themes have,
> but gnome, hicolor and default do not) and without running
> gtk-update-icon-cache nautilus fails to find new icons installed in
> hicolor.
> 
> What is the correct thing to do here? I'm inclined to think that
> gtk-update-icon-cache should always be run and that packages that fail
> to run gtk-update-icon-cache themselves are simply broken.

I just asked about this, and I was told that some Debian maintainers
are not quite happy with the cache, and so it's not used. I believe
there were some threads about this on the xdg list.

We should probably convince Debian people to use the cache or find
another solution that satisfies everybody.

(I might be totally wrong, of course :-))

Vincent

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