icon cache scriplet guideline update

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Dec 19 19:23:11 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 12:19 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> FYI,
> The packaging committee passed a new guidelines wrt icon cache scriptlets:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ScriptletSnippets/iconcache
> (pending FESCo/Core-cabal ratification).
> 
> In short, replace existing scriptlets
> touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor || :
> %{_bindir}/gtk-update-icon-cache --quiet %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor || :
> with
> %{_bindir}/xdg-icon-resource forceupdate --theme hicolor  || :
> 
> -- Rex
> 

It is interesting to note that this proposal doesn't actually address
the one problem that there is with the current snipplets, namely that
we keep regenerating the cache over and over.




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