Re: [gtk-osx-users] Preserving symlinks in bundle for themes

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Oct 14, 2017, at 2:58 AM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> I've been playing with GTK3 version of Geany (GTK3 seems to be getting in a usable shape finally) and 
> theming support. I used the Papirus icon theme, removed icons not needed for Geany and got to the size of 
> about 6MB, which is acceptable. However, when creating bundle, all symlinks within the theme get replaced 
> with copies of the files and the resulting size of the theme in bundle becomes about 50MB. This is by far 
> the largest portion of the bundle.
>
> Is there some way to prevent this? It's clear that the bundler tries to avoid situations when symlinks lead 
> to stuff outside the bundle but with icons, symlinks are always relative to the icon theme directory so 
> having them in the bundle should be safe.
>
> I think there could be some option of the <icon-theme> tag in the bundle settings file so users who know 
> that symlinks don't point outside the bundle can use it to keep the symlinks.
>
> What do you think?

You mean now that the first release of Gtk4 is out? :-/

I don’t have a philosophical objection to copying symlinks into the bundle, but what’s getting symlinked and 
why? Why can’t you have a single copy of each file and call it by its name?

Regards,
John Ralls