[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] hicolor-icon-theme: new package

[Eric Le Bihan]

Hi!

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Eric Le Bihan,
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:21:10 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> > This new package provides Freedesktop Hicolor icon theme.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev at free.fr>
> > ---
> >  package/Config.in                                |  1 +
> >  package/hicolor-icon-theme/Config.in             |  4 ++++
> >  package/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme.mk | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 package/hicolor-icon-theme/Config.in
> >  create mode 100644 package/hicolor-icon-theme/hicolor-icon-theme.mk
>
> I'm a bit confused by what this package does: it doesn't contain
> anything, and does not install anything except a huge number of
> directories (empty) in usr/share/icons/. Is this the intended behavior?
> I would have expected an icon theme to install some .svg or .png files,
> no?

The hicolor icon theme is the *fallback* icon theme. As explained in the
specifications [1], this theme is required to have a place for third-party
applications to install their icons. If a icon is not found in the current
theme, then hicolor is the theme to look into.

So the package just installs a directory structure as well as an index.

I added it to avoid some warnings when executing the gtk3-demo application.

When I'll provide a patch bumping libgtk3 to 3.14, I will also provide a
package for adwaita-icon-theme, which is a true icon theme, weighting 18 MB!

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

Best regards,
ELB