info.icon in HAL

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 17:03 -0500, Rodney Dawes 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.

So probably the GNOME VFS patch for 2.18 should test whether that icon
exists and if it doesn't it should fall back to the old icon naming
code? If we do this we can start populating info.icon_name right away.

I'd like to do that, also such that future versions of HAL that does
this won't break GNOME 2.18...

> 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.

I think have the main icons e.g. media-flash but not necessarily
media-flash-cf in g-i-t makes sense. Then avid users can always install
extra icons to get the "flash".

     David