[cmake-developers] cmake-gui icons

[Daniel Pfeifer]

2014-10-27 21:33 GMT+01:00 Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:59:09 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Trying to bring a bit more attention to this:
> >
> > Fedora is pushing to have higher resolution icons for the applications.
> There
> > already is CMakeSetup128.png, but these would need to get installed into
> the
> > proper /usr/share/icons/ hierarchy and named appropriately for the
> correct
> > size to be automatically found and used. It would be good to have
> cmake-gui be
> > conformant to the current desktop standards.
> >
> > Related -
> >
> > http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13504
> > http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14315
> >
> > Also might want to consider shipping AppData information.
> >
> > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
>
> I think there's a bug about this too (or at least for appdata). My
> question is: does it really make sense to have appdata for CMake's GUI?
> It isn't an "end user" application and I feel that developers "know"
> about CMake's Qt UI (or at least wouldn't look for it in the application
> tool thing).
>
> (I'm not against AppData overall; just wondering whether it makes sense
> for development tools such as cmake-gui.)
>
> Others' thoughts?


I wouds say: Yes, it makes sense.

There is AppData for Anjuta, Eclipse, KDevelop, QtCreator and the like.
Those too are tools for developers rather than "end users". cmake-gui would
perfectly fit into that crowd.

-- Daniel
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