Re: GNOME Icon Theme Testing

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Rodney Dawes <dobey pwns gmail com> wrote:
> Holas,
>
>  As you may have read in the minutes for the recent Artwork Meeting,
>  at http://live.gnome.org/ArtMeeting080329 , we have decided that the
>  best way to improve the usage of the Icon Naming Spec throughout the
>  desktop, is to avoid having the compatibility symlinks installed by
>  icon-naming-utils, during the development period.
>
>  This works similar to how we disable fatal criticals for applications
>  via gnome-session. I have committed the changes to gnome-icon-theme
>  trunk to make this work. It simply checks that the minor version number
>  is not an even value, and disables the requirement and usage of the
>  icon-naming-utils script for odd valued minor version numbers.
>
>  What this means for you, as a developer, is that your application may
>  "break" by having no icon, or showing the missing icon image from GTK+
>  instead. If this occurs, you should file a bug against YOUR APPLICATION
>  and NOT AGAINST gnome-icon-theme. You may, however, add one of use
>  gnome-icon-theme developers to the CC: list for the bug, so that we may
>  help assess the problem, and provide direction and feedback for what
>  icon name to use instead. Before and after crops of screen shots will
>  be helpful attachments to the bug as well.
>
>  This is to help expose problems in the desktop during the development
>  cycle in the same way we do with fatal critical errors now. The
>  compatibility links will be re-enabled in the final stable releases,
>  just as fatal criticals are disabled for them.
>
Good idea.

* A possible improvement

Setup a mailing list for icon artists on gnome.org and let people put
that email address on the cc of the bugreport.

Jaap