Re: Icon theme changes

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 10:04 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> we are merging gnom-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic into a
> single icon theme. It will be available under the name
> adwaita-icon-theme. This will affect both jhbuild modulesets and
> distro packages, so I'm sending this heads-up to give you some advance
> warning. In jhbuild, things may be in a bit of flux until all
> dependencies in modules have been straightened out.
>
> The reason for this change is to make things more simple and reliable.
> With our current use, symbolic icons are simply not an optional add-on
> anymore, but an integral part of the user experience. By making it
> part of the single icon theme, we avoid a whole class of 'broken UX'
> cases that happen when somebody forgets to install or removes the
> symbolic icons.

Two questions:
- Why was the name change necessary (rather than simply merging the
symbolic variant into gnome-icon-theme and carrying on with that name)?
- Will gnome-themes-standard also change name?

Cheers