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[Rodney Dawes <1186751@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  Don't hard-depend on humanity-icon-theme

Status in GNOME Icon Theme:
  New
Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  software-center depends on humanity-icon-theme which adds a few MB to
  the .iso size for flavors like Xubuntu or Ubuntu GNOME which ship a
  different theme by default. This is also an issue for Debian which
  packages software-center but not humanity-icon-theme yet.

  softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/utils.py has this note
      # add the humanity icon theme to the iconpath, as not all icon
      # themes contain all the icons we need
      # this *shouldn't* lead to any performance regressions
      path = '/usr/share/icons/Humanity'

  A quick grep shows at a minimum these hard-coded icons as well:
  softwarecenter/ui/qml/SearchBox.qml:        source: "file:///usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/16/edit-find.svg"
  softwarecenter/ui/qml/SearchBox.qml:        source: "file:///usr/share/icons/Humanity/actions/16/edit-clear.svg"
  softwarecenter/ui/qml/pkglist.py:        path = "/usr/share/icons/Humanity/categories/32/applications-other.svg"

  Those files should not be hard-coded as they are shipped by many icon
  themes such as gnome-icon-theme. Even the HighContrast theme which is
  included in Ubuntu by default ships those icons. I believe you are
  hurting accessibility by not allowing the HighContrast theme to
  provide those icons.

  The problem with hard-coding an icon theme is that it is a hack, a
  workaround to improve things for one app but making things more
  difficult for app developers (since they'll have to figure out similar
  hacks...which will cause problems if they want their apps to work on
  other distros as well) and theme developers who have to be aware of
  these issues. If there are icons that need to be available for all
  themes, please ship them in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ instead.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-2.7-generic 3.9.3
  Uname: Linux 3.9.0-2-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jun  2 11:11:51 2013
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-07 (25 days ago)

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