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

[Cyril Brulebois]

tags 417901 confirmed
thanks

Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> (05/04/2007):
> 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.

I'm quite new to the team, but I didn't observe any feedback from Ubuntu
until now. Anyway, no need to apologize. ;)

> 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.

Alright, I prepared a 2.43 package some time ago, which is still missing
an appropriate copyright file (that's why it isn't uploaded yet); I'll
have a look at this quite soon.

> 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.

dh_desktop will indeed do the trick. ;)

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

The manpage has also to be pushed upstream, but we had some more
important things (read: RC bugs) to handle, so it wasn't done, yet.

Thank you for pointing this, that will probably be addressed in the
first upload of the 2.43 version.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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