Icon themes should inherit from a common theme so files aren't duplicated

[GoogleCodeExporter]

In gnome-colors-3.4, each icon theme has many files that are duplicated in
other themes. These duplicated icons should be extracted and placed into a
common theme (perhaps gnome-colors-base?) that the specifically colored
icon themes inherit from.

Attached is a list of the icons I found to be needlessly duplicated.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by archeng...@gmail.com on 17 May 2009 at 7:18

Attachments:

• duplicates.list

[GoogleCodeExporter]

It's a great idea, I've wanted to do so since the beginning... It would 
certainly
save space and time, but it just can't be implemented.

Users expect to simply extract the tarball of their favorite color, drag n' 
drop it
to Appearance Preferences and enjoy. It would be frustrating for a common 
novice user
to do just that and then experience warnings or an incomplete icon set, because
having to manually add a "common" library is not very intuitive.

This could be implemented if the primary installation methods were .deb/.rpm
packages, since then you can specify dependencies and so on... But since 
GNOME-Colors
is an extractable archive in order to be distribution-agnostic, it can't be 
done for now.

Original comment by perfectska04 on 17 May 2009 at 8:22

• Changed state: WontFix
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• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I didn't even think of that. I usually just copy the entire set over.
Well, keep up the great work =D

Original comment by archeng...@gmail.com on 18 May 2009 at 1:14

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

This is now scripted and done in the PPA's all thanks to the gnome-colors 
packagers.
If you install from the PPA, all the icon sets have a common base, and a lot of 
disk
space is saved.

Original comment by perfectska04 on 28 Jun 2009 at 4:03

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