[packagekit] PackageKit-gnome: saner icons usage

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 18:30 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>> When app is uninstalled - generic icons is used (package-x-generic, I
>> guess), but when it's installed, some .desktop files are placed in
>> %{_datadir}/applications (where datadir macro is eg /usr/share).
>>
>> .desktop file provides name of app, its category, icon, supported mime
>> types.
>>
>> PackageKit would check for .desktop file existence and use its "Icon=
>> "
>> definition to display appropriate icon from icon theme (or from
>> specified pixmap).
>
> Please see:
>
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/pk-application-extra.png
>
> This is with my locale set to "en_GB" and the libpackagekit results
> hardcoded to "fr" - the two will match up eventually of course.
>
> Theres a new GObject called PkExtra in libpackagekit that lets you query
> (as a user) a small cached sqlite repository containing all the
> localisations and icon names. The data from this is populated per system
> (as root) from a few information sources:
>
> * All the installed desktop files in /usr/share/applications (this works
> now)
> * Metadata from the online desktop project (to get things like
> popularity, WIP)
> * Information about non-installed packages generated from the distro
> builder (WIP)
>
> I don't think caching the installed icons and shipping them separately
> is a good idea, just from a size point of view.
>
> The sqlite database is currently at 200kb in size with 201 applications
> installed (i.e. things that ship desktop files) so I'm guessing it would
> be couple of Mb with the entire distro repository of information in and
> the online desktop stuff. Of course, being sqlite, it's very quick to
> query.
>
> Updating the offline repo would be left to the distro packager, as of
> course, this stuff is all per-distribution.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Richard.
>
>
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