FS#6385 - OpenOffice icon sets - why all of them at once?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dawid Wróbel (cromo) - Friday, 09 February 2007, 17:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Is there any reason for which openoffice comes with 4 different icon sets at once, ~5MB each? Currently in /opt/openoffice/share/config/ you'll find images_hicontrast.zip, images_industrial.zip, images_crystal.zip. images.zip. This IMHO is not very KISS. I guess most of the people use industrial theme (the prittiest IMHO), so e.g. it could come as default one and the rest 3 could be packaged separately.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Thursday, 15 February 2007, 10:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 10:37 GMT
KISS is about removing unnecessary gui options that might might complicate usage and not about features that do not obstruct the user's work.

As for the different icon sets, industrial fits better in Gnome, crystal fits well in KDE. Even the hiconstrast one is there for a reason. Gnome for example ships with a hicontrast icon theme for accessibility reasons and openoffice has to adapt for that. Even if different different icon sets are packaged separately, who says that industrial is the one that has to be shipped by default in the openoffice package? In any case, this is just my personal opinion.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 10:00 GMT
Arch policy is to not split packages, except of cases when this is needed.

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