Re: App Icons

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Marek Černocký <marek(at)manet(dot)cz>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: App Icons
Date: 2014-12-16 12:58:20
Message-ID: CA+OCxoyaxg4aQy2+0haG+o=mOQmg3RX6DSXQbU=2tLBMhppOeQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Marek Černocký <marek(at)manet(dot)cz> wrote:
>
>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
>
> Essentials:
>
> - Install icons to
> /BUILD_ROOT/DATA_DIR/icons/hicolor/SIZE_SPEC/apps/pgadmin3.PNG|SVG
> (same parts of path may be distribution specific)
>
> - Use "Icon=pgamdmin3" in pgadmin3.desktop - desktop shell, e.g. GNOME,
> KDE..., select itself suitable icon version from paths mentioned above.
>

OK.

>
> Currently only one icon version is installed and used (mostly old icon
> pgadmin3.xpm). See pkg/debian/pgadmin3.install,
> pkg/suse/pgadmin3.spec.in... Some distributions added other own icons
> outside official source code. It would nice prepare unified resources
> for all Linux and *nix distributions. It includes some other changes, I
> will post them separately.
>

As far as I know, none of the the packages in /pkg are used by any
distributions except for Windows and Mac. I believe all the Linux platforms
have their own spec files (or equivalent) - all the ones we have are
extremely outdated and probably should be removed. I'd really like to hear
from Linux packagers before we do that though.

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