Re: PackageKit application icons

On 1/28/09, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. <rvinyard(a)cs.nmsu.edu&gt; wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 14:24 -0700, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: >>> Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> > Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. (rvinyard(a)cs.nmsu.edu) said: >>> >> Ahhh... I see that now, and they're already there. >>> >> >>> >> It's a shame that's the only mechanism for adding icons. I'd like >>> to >>> see >>> >> something other than cardboard boxes when looking for devel >>> packages. >>> > >>> > The problem is you'd either need to: >>> > >>> > - include icons in the metadata (which gets very large, very fast) >>> > - create a package that consists of all the icons that may be in >>> > the distro (which gets very messy to maintain, very fast) >>> > >>> > Neither of these are particularly good solutions. >>> > >>> >>> I agree that neither of those are good solutions, but there is another >>> option. >>> >>> Currently, the icons reside in each package and the desktop entry file >>> (also in the individual packages) is used to associate the package >>> with >>> the icon. >>> >>> Why couldn't devel packages (and others without desktop entry files) >>> follow a similar approach containing the icon and association? >> >> I think the problem then is you don't see the icon for the package >> until >> you've installed the package. > > But, aren't they currently harvesting them from the packages and desktop > entries? Yes, as soon as you install the package, PackageKit parses the desktop file and adds the icon file to a local database.

> Or, does pkg-application only show the icons for the packages I > currently > have installed? Yup. The only way this could work for not-installed files would be for the application icons to be put on the mirrors, and for PackageKit to generate a per-user cache of icons in the session.