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

[Daniel Yek]

Thanks Waldo, for the explanation. Now, I understand the rational behind it 
and can accept it easier.

Would the original authors or someone else document the rational or 
guidelines to effectively use the scripts so that developers don't have to 
rediscover everything over and over again or even worse, change (fix) the 
scripts and bundle them with their software?

I would appreciate that a lot.

Another example of a usage problem with xdg-utils scripts is that the 
xdg-desktop-icon would install an icon on root user's desktop as opposed to 
the user's desktop when a software package is installed as root. Well, I 
later figured that I shouldn't be using the script during installation 
anyway, even if the behavior is what I expected it to be (which is a 
system-wide desktop icon), because installing icons on desktop seems to be 
frowned upon. But document for these gotcha would make the utilities much 
friendlier to use.

By the way, thanks the Portland Project for the scripts.


-- 
Daniel Yek


At 02:45 PM 1/17/2007, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>Exsiting Gnome implementations require the icon to be named either
>video-ogg.png or (some older versions) gnome-mime-video-ogg.png
>
>Existing KDE implementations allow an icon name to be anything but it
>must be specified in the mimetype description file (those of the
>.desktop kind)
>
>Since xdg-icon-resource needs to work with all of these environments it
>installs it as video-ogg.png with a link to gnome-mime-video-ogg.png to
>make it work on older gnome versions, and it registers the video-ogg.png
>name in the KDE .desktop file that describes the mimetype to make it
>work with KDE.
>
>Cheers,
>Waldo
>
>Intel Corporation - Platform Software Engineering, UMG - Hillsboro,
>Oregon
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-
> >bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Yek
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:27 PM
> >To: FreeDesktop.org
> >Subject: xdg-utils xdg-icon-resource's destination icon name
> >
> >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