info.icon in HAL

[Rodney Dawes]

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.


-- dobey


On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:39 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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?