FreeCAD Icon for Ubuntu

[chrisb]

correct, I used the version from the repo and not the last stable. My mistake. It wasn't enough to perform

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I changed the documentation so it says now to use

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

instead. It has better handling of release changes.

[M4x]

But aren't you upgrading the whole system by using dist-upgrade?

[NormandC]

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/w ... rade#81594

dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
the general settings for individual packages.

[M4x]

Thanks again!

[kkremitzki]

So what's needed is to simply rename the Icon entry to "freecad-daily" instead of "freecad".

I will make the change on the Daily PPA so the next update should fix the icon.

Hmm, this will break icon themes though. For example, I use the Numix Circle theme, so "Icon=freecad" resolves to /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle/48/apps/freecad.svg, so in order for "Icon=freecad-daily" to show the correct icon, either I or the icon theme package maintainers would need to create a freecad-daily.svg symlink pointing at the appropriate freecad.svg.

[NormandC]

Did you place this icon there yourself? How exactly does that break the icon theme?

I'm only following the freedesktop.org guidelines, and please do not forget that we need to ensure that both the stable and daily PPA packages have to be able to cohabit. Therefore using only "freecad" for the freecad-daily package icon shouldn't be permitted.

[kkremitzki]

Did you place this icon there yourself? How exactly does that break the icon theme?

I'm only following the freedesktop.org guidelines, and please do not forget that we need to ensure that both the stable and daily PPA packages have to be able to cohabit. Therefore using only "freecad" for the freecad-daily package icon shouldn't be permitted.

No, it was placed there by the numix-icon-theme-circle package. When I change the .desktop file to use "Icon=freecad-daily", it falls back to the non-themed icon because there is no freecad-daily.svg file in the /usr/share/icons/Numix-Circle folder. This would be true for any other icon theme.

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[NormandC]

It's great that the Numix icon theme has a freecad icon.

But as for the freecad-daily icon that will now be missing from the theme, I'm afraid that in my opinion this is how it should be.

Currently, when installed stand-alone, the freecad-daily package does not have an icon on default Ubuntu icon themes. This needs to be fixed, and I don't think forcing users to install the freecad package to solve this is reasonable.

The freecad package from the official Ubuntu repo and the stable PPA should take precedence over the freecad icon name, after all the daily package is a development version that should only be used by experienced users for testing.