Drew Parsons writes: > Hello, my package viewmol contains a handful of icons for kde. I > don't use kde daily myself, so I'm not sure about correct handling > of the icons.
> viewmol has its own install script for the icons, it wants to copy > them under /usr/share/icons/default.kde, as well as providing > /usr/share/applications/viewmol.desktop and some desktop config > files under /usr/share/mimelnk. > Bug #254247 reports that use of /usr/share/icons/default.kde is a > conflict against kdelibs-data. But dpkg does not complain. > On the other hand, kdelibs-data's version of default.kde is a > symlink to crystalsvg, while viewmol's is a plain directory. This > will be a problem if viewmol is installed before kdelibs-data. > Is there any better way of handling the icons which viewmol wants to > place under default.kde, or is a pre-dependency on kdelibs-data the > only solution (not a very good solution for those viewmol users who > don't use kde)? I think it should just install them under /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg ( and if the kde icon theme would be changed again some day, in whatever other directory that default.kde points to ). cheers domi
