[GRASS-dev] question about icons in GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

There are ones in ../lib/init too? What are they used for?

The packaging structure Glynn proposed is fine for linux, but is not  
so good for Mac. It is much better for installation on the Mac if  
GRASS goes into a *.app package (normally in /Applications/*.app), as  
both William Kyngesburye and Lorenzo Moretti. Also, using the Mac help  
system as they do makes GRASS help more accessible (i.e., in the help  
library rather than only from within GRASS) than showing it via a  
browser. I'm not sure what the packaging issues are for help, but the  
only difference this would make to main GRASS packaging is that  
$GISBASE would be a Mac *.app package folder rather than /usr/local.

I don't know how the /usr/local structure plays on Windows, but do  
know that apps normally reside in a My Programs directory.

Michael
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On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2008/8/6 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:
>
> [...]
>
>>> IMO $GISBASE/docs/html/icons seems very a strange place to put them,
>>> while $GISBASE/etc/icons seems very natural. Their primary reason  
>>> for
>>> existence is for the GUI program, the docs are reactionary to that..
>>>
>>> note that some packagers (Debian...) will, for large softwares,  
>>> split
>>> the docs from the main program package into a new -docs package.  
>>> this
>>> is for a couple reasons- one is that some people (eg embedded, old
>>> hardware) want to save the disk space by not installing unneeded  
>>> docs;
>>> another is to avoid redundancy on the package download servers by
>>> pushing as much platform-neutral data into a single "-any" package  
>>> and
>>> then have a series of smaller -i386, -arm, -mips, etc. binary
>>> packages. Storing 11 copies of the same docs adds up when you  
>>> support
>>> 11 hardware platforms.
>>>
>>> The icons are platform neutral so not a problem for the server-space
>>> reason, but very much a problem for the user wants "core only"  
>>> reason.
>>
>> IOW, the icons should really be installed into both docs/html/icons
>> (for the documentation) and etc/icons (for the GUI itself).
>
> the reasons you have mentioned make senses to me. I will fix silk
> icons accordingly.
>
> [...]
>
> BTW, maybe also icons and images from lib/init/ could be moved to  
> the new place.
>
> gintro.gif -> gui/images ($GISDBASE/etc/gui/images)
> *.ico -> gui/icons ($GISDBASE/gui/icons)
> original GRASS icons - gui/icons/grass ($GISDBASE/gui/icons/grass)
> Silk icons - gui/icons/silk ($GISDBASE/gui/icons/silk)
>
> Martin
>
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