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| author | Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com> | 2019-09-12 15:07:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Jan Tojnar <jtojnar@gmail.com> | 2019-09-18 22:45:08 +0200 |
| commit | 22f70547f622255bdb35dedfc82d3cbc9f5b219d (patch) | |
| tree | 55436aebe050f6d52ec6fcdd3f95c810ecf93608 /doc/languages-frameworks | |
| parent | 8f91e87ded9c11abf805b83ef069736808befabb (diff) | |
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nixos/doc/gnome: clarify icon theme availability
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/languages-frameworks/gnome.xml | 2 |
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diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/gnome.xml b/doc/languages-frameworks/gnome.xml index 8b3151d5bf94..05bfa4fe0ce1 100644 --- a/doc/languages-frameworks/gnome.xml +++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/gnome.xml @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ <title>Icons</title> <para> - When an application uses icons, an icon theme should be available in <envar>XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar>. The package for the default, icon-less <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/icon-theme/">hicolor-icon-theme</link> contains <link linkend="ssec-gnome-hooks-hicolor-icon-theme">a setup hook</link> that will pick up icon themes from <literal>buildInputs</literal> and pass it to our wrapper. Unfortunately, relying on that would mean every user has to download the theme included in the package expression no matter their preference. For that reason, we leave the installation of icon theme on the user. If you use one of the desktop environments, you probably already have an icon theme installed. + When an application uses icons, an icon theme should be available in <envar>XDG_DATA_DIRS</envar> during runtime. The package for the default, icon-less <link xlink:href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/icon-theme/">hicolor-icon-theme</link> (should be propagated by every icon theme) contains <link linkend="ssec-gnome-hooks-hicolor-icon-theme">a setup hook</link> that will pick up icon themes from <literal>buildInputs</literal> and pass it to our wrapper. Unfortunately, relying on that would mean every user has to download the theme included in the package expression no matter their preference. For that reason, we leave the installation of icon theme on the user. If you use one of the desktop environments, you probably already have an icon theme installed. </para> </section> |