GNOME Icon Theme Testing

[Rodney Dawes <dobey pwns gmail com>]

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.

Enjoy.

-- dobey and the rest of the art team