Bug#931912: Please do not Depends/Recommends against gnome-icon-theme

[Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>]

Hello Hilmar,

That's indeed what I'm proposing.

Kind regards,

Laurent Bigonville

On 12/07/19 11:27, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 12.07.19 10:24, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>
> Hi Laurent,
>
> thanks for the report and explanation!
>
> Just to make sure what we have to do now:
>
> 1. replace the line "Icon=info" in /usr/share/applications/info.desktop
> by "Icon=dialog-information"
> 2. Drop recommends against gnome-icon-theme and simply assume that an
> incarnation of icon "dialog-information" is part of every desktop
> installation.
>
> Please confirm!
>
> Thanks,
>    Hilmar
>
> > I see that the info package Recommends gnome-icon-theme, I don't think
> > it's a good idea.
> >
> > gnome-icon-theme is not maintained anymore. Also I don't think it's up
> > to a leaf application to define the icon theme that should be installed.
> >
> > The best solution is to use a xdg icon name and expect that the user
> > will have an icon theme installed.
> >
> > If you want a "light bulb" icon, you should probably use the name
> > "dialog-information" icon which is part of the xdg standard (see
> > https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html)
> >
> > I see this icon being part of most of the icon theme.