xdg-utils xdg-icon-resource's destination icon name

[Daniel Yek]

Hi,

xdg-icon-resource requires that the (source) icon has vendor-prefix and 
turns around copies the icon to a destination file without the 
vendor-prefix -- in fact, using only MIME type as icon file name. This 
creates bigger icon name conflicts. Is that a design decision or a bug?

So, an icon likes hxplay-mime-video-ogg-48x48.png would be installed as 
video-ogg.png (with symbolic link of gnome-mime-video-ogg.png to it). That 
is undesirable to me. Documentation says nothing about behavior like this, 
leaving developers reading through the scripts to figure out if the scripts 
are doing what is expected (if what is expected is understood at all). So, 
xdg-utils doesn't make life easier as it first appeared to be. (If it is 
documented clearly, it could be a different story.)

Also, xdg-icon-resource doesn't provide an option to create only symbolic 
links back to icons in application installation directory.

Any comment if xdg-icon-resource is right or wrong? Was it done that way to 
accommodate how KDE worked? (Just speculating...)

Thanks.


-- 
Daniel Yek