Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme

[Fernando Lemos <fernandotcl@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote:
>
>> [1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>
> I think you want this spec instead since it specifies icon names:
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
>

Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. :-)

> If your package only uses icon names from this spec then I would
> suggest defining a fd-icon-theme (or similar) virtual package:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
>
> Then get lintian to check icon theme packages to make sure they
> Provide: fd-icon-theme.

That would be perfect. Any tips on how to get this started? Should
this be discussed in debian-devel, or perhaps debian-desktop?

Thanks,