Re: new: x11/xapp-symbolic-icons

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Le Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 11:24:28AM +0800, Chris Billington a écrit :
> 
> adwaita-xfce-icon-theme adds some xfce-specific icons and makes the Adwaita
> icon theme selectable again in GUI apps of Xfce and other desktop
> environments. It's a response to Gnome deprecating the use of Adwaita for
> applications, while ignoring the existing usage. It could be included in
> meta/xfce.
> 
> xapp-symbolic-icons provides fallback symbolic icons (under hicolor) for
> Gnome-ish apps that will appear if a user's selected icon theme does not
> include them. Gnome seems to like scalable/action symbolic icons, and
> coverage of these can be patchy in non-Adwaita icon themes. Though Breeze
> and Breeze Dark are quite complete, they don't include all those that are in
> Adwaita, for example. They are mostly absent in the 'Xfce default' icon
> theme Rodent (based on Tango) which xfce4-icon-theme installs.

after discussing it off-list with ajacoutot@, can you remind/explain us
why you remove the xsi-* prefix ? apparently arch, fedora & freebsd
package xapp-symbolic-icons as-is, keeping the xsi prefix. my
understanding is the python script creates symlinks in the user homedir
or somewhere else ? meant to be run system-wide or per user ?

as it is with your port, there'd be a conflict with mail/geary on 3 icons:
x11/xapp-symbolic-icons/ $cat pkg/PLIST | grep -v '@tag' | while read f; do pkg_locate $f ; done
geary-46.0p2:mail/geary:/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/edit-symbolic.svg
geary-46.0p2:mail/geary:/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/tag-symbolic.svg
geary-46.0p2:mail/geary:/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/text-x-generic-symbolic.svg

i understand the idea is to propose a fallback for apps not shipping
their own symbolic icons, but what should be done for apps that do ship
some ? pkg_locate symbolic.svg |grep share/icons/hicolor/scalable | cut
-d : -f 1 |sort -u lists 29 ports. luckily only one conflicts, for some
of the ports they ship their icons prefixed with the pkg name, so what
should be done for geary ? @comment the icons in geary and make it RDEP
on xapp-symbolic-icons ? @comment them in xsi ? rename ?

> Both are minimal in size because the contents are all scalable .svg
> 
> If you are OK to import them, it would help improve the default experience
> for people who use the 'Gnome' applications outside Gnome. In any case, I

Like, which gnome apps render without icons/broken outside gnome ? (i have to
admit i dont use any)

Landry
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