Comment 2 for bug 1658325
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| Fabio Valentini (decathorpe) wrote Re: the referenced application icon is not shipped with the package | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
Yes, I know that some of the icons are considered "generic" and are covered by the fd.o spec.
However, some infrastructure components (for example the appstream metadata generators / parsers, which use the included appdata file) expect the referenced icon to be present within the package itself and cannot rely on an icon theme being present. This prevents appstream metadata to be generated for the affected packages and thus prevents them from showing up in Application Installers (for example, GNOME Software on fedora, openSUSE, ubuntu, etc.).
I realize that it might not be in your interests to move (and possibly rename) application icons from e-icon-theme to the applications themselves, but the (current) limitations of this approach are outlined above.