[GRASS-dev] question about icons in GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

Do we want to change icon locations for GRASS 6.4 or only GRASS 7.  
AFAIK, only the docs and GUI need the icons.

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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