Re: Goals for 2.10 - desktop-wide profiling

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 03:48, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> fre, 24,.09.2004 kl. 08.31 +0200, skrev Alexander Larsson:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:22 +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > Owen had a suggestion for how to do this, and Anders did an
> > > implementation:
> > > 
> > >         http://andersca.org/patches/icon-theme-cache.diff
> > > 
> > > I haven't looked at it though, so I don't know the status of
> > > it. 
> > 
> > I haven't looked at this code, but i know owens proposal, and i think an
> > implementation of that would help a lot.
> > 
> The patch doesn't apply any more and from what I was told doesn't work
> either. 
> 
> >From discussion on irc and the mailing list I've found:
> 
> - only directories are cached, not icons yet
> - support for unthemed icons needs to be added
> - the generator doesn't work yet
> - it should be rewritten in C (in python now)
> - the patch and the generator don't agree on the filenames
> - things need to be added to the icon theme spec
> 
> Someone else can probably fill in more here, but I just wanted to get
> this out there so others can help get the ball rolling :-)

I have put a working (from very cursory testing) version of the 
icon cache patch into 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154034
so that people can try it out. The patch is against current
GTK+ head.

Matthias