info.icon in HAL

[Richard Hughes]

On 02/03/07, Rodney Dawes <dobey at novell.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:25 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Hmrh, so I think it was a little premature to just post this without
> > thinking about the ramifications and explaining what we're trying to
> > achieve. So here goes
>
> >  - Second, icon-naming-spec defines more than just names - it defines
> >    the structure of how icons are named. So, for example, if HAL says
> >    "the i-n-s name for this device is phone-danger-hiptop-version3"
> >    then the desktop bits rendering the icon can be smart about it.
> >    Because they _know_ about the structure and call fallback to more
> >    generic icons if the specific icon is not available; for this
> >    example the following icons are searched for in order of preference

So what's the plan? Okay to merge my patches and start working on a
fdi file to do the icon matching? Or do we need to change the key
name? Can we do this before 0.5.9 so that we can just add frequent
updates to hal-info?

Richard.