info.icon in HAL

[Richard Hughes]

On 05/03/07, Rodney Dawes <dobey at novell.com> wrote:
> One problem is that we haven't yet decided how to ship and install the
> icons, so that users will actually get them. I don't believe that
> Matthias has committed his patch to GTK+, to do the fallback method as
> described in the Icon Naming Spec, to SVN yet. Once GTK+ handles that
> fallback method by default, and we have all the base icons in the
> gnome-icon-theme package, users will at least be able to get sanely
> usable icons, if they don't have the specific icons.
>
> So, I'd be a little hesitant to say that we should straight out start
> sticking these properties into the FDI files yet. We need to get the
> icon theme falling back entirely correctly, and ensure that all the
> base device icons are available, before we do.
>
> Right now, from the theme side, I'm still working out how exactly we
> should ship the icons. We don't want to just shove them all into
> gnome-icon-theme and have them always available, I think.

Okay, sounds like a plan. When you guys have decided on freedesktop
names for the icons and we have patches in gnomevfs then us HAL guys
can swing into action.

Thanks,

Richard.