Bug 507602 – x11-themes/faenza-icon-theme-1.3 - replace symbolic links with the traditional XDG directory structure

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gino McCarty 2014-04-14 00:07:01 UTC]

Here is a patch against faenza-icon-theme
I just modified this ebuild so that symbolic links are made to the traditional XDG folder structure from unusual one used in Faenza.
This issue doesn't effect most users since index.theme correctly references the directories, but some (many?) parsing scripts do not correctly use index.theme file. For those a proper hicolor style traditional folder structure is expected or else many scripts will fail to locate the correct icons..

This patch puts in symbolic links for the corrected folder structure..


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gino McCarty 2014-04-14 00:08:00 UTC]

Created attachment 374882 [details, diff]
new patch for faenza-icon-theme ebuild

[Comment 2 Gino McCarty 2014-04-14 00:38:50 UTC]

Created attachment 374888 [details, diff]
new faenza-icon-theme-1.3-r1.ebuild

Sorry had a typo in my original patch should be ok now

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2014-06-03 10:04:59 UTC]

(In reply to Harvey Mittens from comment #0)
> This issue doesn't effect most users since index.theme correctly references
> the directories, but some (many?) parsing scripts do not correctly use
> index.theme file. For those a proper hicolor style traditional folder
> structure is expected or else many scripts will fail to locate the correct
> icons..

sounds like the patches should go to the broken scripts then, if they fail to parse index.theme properly

[Comment 4 Gino McCarty 2014-06-06 16:24:55 UTC]

(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #3)
> (In reply to Harvey Mittens from comment #0)
> > This issue doesn't effect most users since index.theme correctly references
> > the directories, but some (many?) parsing scripts do not correctly use
> > index.theme file. For those a proper hicolor style traditional folder
> > structure is expected or else many scripts will fail to locate the correct
> > icons..
> 
> sounds like the patches should go to the broken scripts then, if they fail
> to parse index.theme properly

I think you misunderstand the scope of the problem here, its a spec compliance issue, where faenza is out of spec, NOT the scripts.. index.theme parsing is actually quite often not utilized.

[Comment 5 Gino McCarty 2014-09-30 14:12:15 UTC]

I don't understand why you won't merge this.. without it, faenza theme is broken in several DE's