Re: viewmol wants to provide kde icons
Drew Parsons writes:
> Hello, my package viewmol contains a handful of icons for kde. I
> don't use kde daily myself, so I'm not sure about correct handling
> of the icons.
> viewmol has its own install script for the icons, it wants to copy
> them under /usr/share/icons/default.kde, as well as providing
> /usr/share/applications/viewmol.desktop and some desktop config
> files under /usr/share/mimelnk.
> Bug #254247 reports that use of /usr/share/icons/default.kde is a
> conflict against kdelibs-data. But dpkg does not complain.
> On the other hand, kdelibs-data's version of default.kde is a
> symlink to crystalsvg, while viewmol's is a plain directory. This
> will be a problem if viewmol is installed before kdelibs-data.
> Is there any better way of handling the icons which viewmol wants to
> place under default.kde, or is a pre-dependency on kdelibs-data the
> only solution (not a very good solution for those viewmol users who
> don't use kde)?
I think it should just install them under /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg
( and if the kde icon theme would be changed again some day, in
whatever other directory that default.kde points to ).
cheers
domi
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