Re: breakage caused by removed icons from gnome-icon-theme

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 17:39 +0100, Christian Persch wrote:
> 153 of the removed icons are gnome-mime-* icons which are used
> automatically as mime type icons from libgnomeui's gnome-icon-lookup.
> Same for the gnome-fs-* icons, partly by libgnomeui, partly from
> nautilus. Nautilus also uses some gnome-dev-* icons. And the spinner
> icons are used widely, epiphany + nautilus + gedit + beagle (at least).
> That accounts for most of the removed icons already, and I just checked
> a few of the gnome core desktop modules that I have checked out; I
> didn't even check any third-party applications!

The MIME icons all fall back appropriately. The spinner is being redone
in appropriate sizes, and will be back shortly. And libgnomeui and gtk+
are both already updated to use icon names for MIME types in accordance
with the Icon Naming Spec. Alex L. is also working on getting us generic
fallback support for MIME types in the Shared MIME specification, so we
can do all of this stuff even better. Hopefully he will put that in the
spec soon, and get the related xdgmime code updated in gtk+ and vfs.

-- dobey