[indiana-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Calum Benson]

On 13 Aug 2008, at 00:28, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:34 -0400, Dave Miner wrote:
>> Laca,
>>
>> There were two other GNOME packages that I was interested in
>> understanding if we can reduce:
>>
>> SUNWgnome-themes	18.4 MB
>
> Most of the disk space in gnome-themes is used by the icons:
>
> $ du -sk * | sort -n
> 5       LargePrint
> 23      hicolor
> 32      HighContrast
> 32      HighContrastInverse
> 273     HighContrastLargePrint
> 278     HighContrastLargePrintInverse
> 481     Crux
> 708     Neutral_Plus_Inv
> 928     Mist
> 1128    HighContrast-SVG
> 7956    Tango
> 9896    nimbus
> 12529   gnome
>
> Not sure what Mist is, that's potentially something we can omit?
> Maybe Crux too.  We can move them into separate packages.
> Tango is large and not required, but it's very popular on
> Linux so it would be a shame not to have it in the default install.

Nimbus (our default theme) also has a loose dependency on Tango--if an  
icon doesn't exist in Nimbus, the first fallback theme it tries is  
Tango.  This was a deliberate choice--the usual fallback for other  
themes is gnome first, then hicolor.

I'd say we can drop the HighContrast-SVG icon theme for now, though--  
it's still experimental, and as such it's not (yet) the icon theme  
that's actually used by the HighContrast desktop theme.  That will  
change at some point, but then we should be able to drop the  
HighContrastLargePrint icon theme instead.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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