[Portland] xdg-utils beta4 available

Bastian, Waldo waldo.bastian at intel.com
Sat Sep 16 18:00:23 PDT 2006


>Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>>>>     * support for SVG icons is not very widespread since it has
only
>>>>       been added to relative recent desktop versions. Should we
drop
>>>>       support for SVG icons from xdg-icon-resource?
>>> imo, no.  I suggest letting desktop's play catch-up.
>>
>> I understand where you are coming from but I think leaving it as-is
>> presents a problem. When you develop an application for Linux you
want
>> certain things, like having a menu entry with a proper icon, to just
>> work. Having an icon not show up for half of your users is not really
an
>> option.
>
>my $0.02:  Apps should include more than *only* svg icons (that may or
>may not work), else, they're asking for trouble anyway.  This is a
>problem outside the scope of what xdg-utils should be worrying about.

Ok, so apps must install both .pngs and .svgs then. I added a test to
see what happens if they do that, and in that case the .png version is
used. I don't see any value brought along by the current svg support.

Cheers,
Waldo


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