Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] Do not use gnome-searchtool icon

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 22:26 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 07/09/2007 alle 15.20 +0100, jamie ha scritto:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:55 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > Il giorno ven, 07/09/2007 alle 12.01 +0100, jamie ha scritto:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 08:06 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Can one of the maintainers take a look at the patch at
> > > > >
> > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470205
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > committed thx
> > >
> > > Jamie, this means that next tracker package should depend on
> > > gnome-icon-theme 2.20 (or 2.19.xx).
> > >
> > > "system-search" named icon wasn't available in 2.18 series
> >
> > so what sould we do?
>
> IMHO keep the old icon for another GNOME release. See below.
> > gutsy uses 2.20?
>
> Yes. Also note that in gnome-icon-theme 2.20 the old and legacy
> "gnome-searchtool" icon was removed and replaced with an automatically
> generated link to system-search (thanks to icon-naming-utils). Same will
> occur for all icon themes using icon-naming-utils.
>
> So, using old icon in tracker code will allow you to:
>   * support old releases/distros/...
>   * show fresh and beautiful icon if using new icon theme


ok sounds reasonable if symlinks are being used and other apps are
taking advantage of this then we may as well.

jaap: do you have problems with the old icon not being found?

> > also tracker depends on sqlite 3.4 now which is not in feisty
>
> Couldn't you add it inside tracker source tree and statically link if
> not available?

we could but its a real pain - sqlite source needs to be preprocessed
with their lemon yacc thing and they dont use automake. Id rather avoid
the hassle...

jamie