Re: Gnome-themes releases and HighContrast-SVG

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 3 Oct 2006, at 15:42, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> First: I've some new or updated files ready to import. Can I commit  
> them
> or it's better branch and add new stuff only in HEAD?

Historically I've only tended to update icons on a stable branch if  
they were particularly bad, just plain wrong, or (in the case of  
icons that are prominently-positioned on the desktop or in an  
application) missing altogether.

So, I guess we should probably branch, and put new your new and  
updated icons on HEAD.  I'd be happy enough for you to fix any  
placeholder icons in the stable branch after that, either by removing  
them or replacing them with a proper icon.

Sound reasonable?

> Second: currently there are some "placeholders" (a.k.a Big, Red  
> Dot) in
> HighContrast-SVG. Those icons are really useful in development phase,
> quickly showing missing images in theme. But now are really odd in
> stable release.

Yeah, Thomas and I briefly discussed what to do about the SVG theme  
for the stable release a couple of months ago, for this very reason.   
But we forgot to actually make a decision (either that or I forgot  
we'd made one), and then I went on holiday for a month and dumped the  
release duties in his capable-but-overworked hands.  So I guess  
that's largely my fault :/

> I'll remove them from build in the next days and I hope
>
>      1. that someone could create a new release of gnome-themes  
> package
>         after this fix (I'll notify here on list)

I'm sure we can manage that.

>      2. that someone could help me to setup a rule in Makefile.am like
>         this
>
>
>         ready_ICONS=               \
>         	folder.svg	   \
>         	folder-remote.svg  \
>         	folder-visiting.svg
>
>         placeholder_ICONS=      \
>         	new-folder.svg	\
>         	new-document.svg
>
>
>         IF $version IS_UNSTABLE THEN
>         	data_ICONS= 		 \
>         		ready_ICONS 	 \
>         		placeholder_ICONS
>         ELSE
>         	data_ICONS= ready_ICONS
>
> So placeholder should be installed only if the packace is unstable
> version (x.17.x x.19.x ...). Can we do something like this in
> Makefile.am?

Sounds plausible, but I'm no build guru so somebody else will have to  
comment on the suitability of that solution...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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