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Re: SVG icons



On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:55 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:49:49PM +0100, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> > The authoritative document is the menu _manual_:
> > (/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz), section 3.7
> > 
> > An extract from that section:
> > 
> >      Debian package maintainers should ensure that any icons they include
> >      for use in the Debian menus conform to the following points:
> > 
> >      1.   The icons should be in xpm format.
> > 
> >      2.   The icons may not be larger than 32x32 pixels, although smaller
> >           sizes are ok.
> 
> Note that's a "may" and a "should", not a "must". IIRC they only trigger
> lintian warnings, not errors.

If I tell my son, "You may not go play in the rain.", he knows 
that he can't go play in the rain.

Thus, "may" in this context is ambiguous.  "Should" is only slightly
less so.

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