Re: Updating the icon cache (GNOME Goals)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 16:44 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just saw this http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon about making
> apps update the GTK+ icon cache during "make install".
> 
> This would be fine in a tarball-only world, but I wonder if distros will
> just end up patching out that part of Makefiles, and calling
> gtk-update-icon-cache on their own.

Hi Federico,

The Makefile.am snippet only runs gtk-update-icon-cache if DESTDIR is
empty.  The idea is that distros make install to a temporary DESTDIR and
the actual install happens later.  In this case, gtk-update-icon-cache
is not called in make install and it's up to the packager to call it at
the right time.  This trick is common practice, used at least in
fontconfig and pango too.

> For example, in openSUSE we update the icon cache separately from
> package installation, with the idea that the cache will only be updated
> once even if many packages are installed.  (The really right way may be
> to use an RPM %posttrans - no idea if that works.)
> 
> So, do we really need this in tarballs?

I'd say yes.

>   Federico

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