Bug#516566: gnome-icon-theme: 516566: move it to desktop-base

[Fabian Greffrath]

> In theory, that sounds good. In practice, that implies using diversions,
> which are BAD(tm), and it has a chance to break icon caching, so it’s
> not that simple.

Maybe we could work with a fallback icon? How about this:

- The original start-here icon in the gnome-icon-theme package is
   renamed to start-here-gnome
- The Debian swirl logo will be provided as start-here icon in the
   desktop-base package
- gnome-icon-theme recommends desktop-base
- If desktop-base is not installed, GNOME applications won't find the
   start-here icon anymore and should use the start-here-gnome icon
   instead (fallback)

This way the Debian desktop would be branded by default. The branding 
could be easily removed and the original state restored by removing 
the desktop-base package. No diversions between packages would be 
necessary in this scenario. Sounds reasonable?

Cheers,
Fabian


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