Re: [Gegl-developer] Notice (especially for third-party packagers) about the "Symbolic" and "Symbolic-Inverted" icons

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Dear GEGL developer list,

Please ignore my previous (below) email (well except for the GEGL bug
report part if you wish). It was destined to the GIMP developer list
and got misdirected by a filthy completion system! :-P
Thanks!

Jehan

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> If you are a third party packager, or a user who builds GIMP yourself,
> and happen to have an issue where the Symbolic and Symbolic-Inverted
> icons are nearly the same color, you can simply run on your GIMP tree:
>
> $ touch icons/Symbolic/*/*.png
>
> Note that if you are a packager in particular, an even better practice
> is to always build from scratch when the goal is to provide a software
> package to users. This way, you avoid build bugs, like this one.
>
> For information, the problem is because of a bug on gegl:invert-linear
> operation, which — for some reason still unknown (see bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760766) — was not properly
> inverting colors on many icons. This issue has been bypassed with
> commit 37a482a:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37a482a09609d54fed91b56fb1bec39d08d052dc
>
> If you happened to have built GIMP in between the icon color switch
> and this commit, and never cleaned your repository, then you will
> encounter the problem. The solution is therefore touching all origin
> png icons (or a `make clean`).
> Have fun with GIMP!
>
> Jehan
>
> P.S.: but really, if you are a packager, not building from scratch is
> bad practice. You are building for many people and should do it from a
> clean slate.