[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#417901: blender: Use new icon theme

[Sven Arvidsson]

Package: blender
Version: 2.42a-6
Severity: normal

Hi,

Part of this bug report comes from observations of the Ubuntu
package, I guess you sync changes between the two and that this
will apply to the next version in debian, but if I'm wrong, I 
apologise in advance.

Blender 2.43 comes with a great new icon theme[0], following the freedesktop
specification[1]. It's included in the sources
(release/freedesktop/icons) but does not seem to be used by the
package yet. It would be great if it could be set as default for any
DE following the freedesktop specification (KDE, GNOME, XFCE). The
Debian menu entry, however, seem to still require the XPM icon.

On a similar note, I noticed that you don't run
update-desktop-database after installing the blender.desktop file. This
is needed to update the MIME definitions. You can run it manually or
use dh_desktop to install the file.

I would also suggest you try to get the desktop file included upstream
so more translations can be added and shared among the distributions.

Thanks in advance,

0. http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2006-November/016056.html
1. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/icon-theme-spec

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/hid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii  gettext [libgettextpo0]  0.16.1-1        GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  liba52-0.7.4             0.7.4-11        library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii  libavcodec0d             0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat0d            0.cvs20060823-8 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-13    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdc1394-13             1.1.0-3+b1      high level programming interface f
ii  libfreetype6             2.2.1-5         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.1.1-21      GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.5.2-3         A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]   6.5.2-3         The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgsm1                  1.0.10-13       Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libjpeg62                6b-13           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libogg0                  1.1.3-2         Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenexr2c2a           1.2.2-4.3       runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii  libpng12-0               1.2.15~beta5-1  PNG library - runtime
ii  libraw1394-8             1.2.1-2         library for direct access to IEEE 
ii  libsdl1.2debian          1.2.11-8        Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6               4.1.1-21        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a              1.1.2.dfsg-1.2  The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2            1.1.2.dfsg-1.2  The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.1.1-1       X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                   2:1.1.0-2       X11 Input extension library
ii  python-central           0.5.12          register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python2.4                2.4.4-2         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

blender recommends no packages.

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