On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:27 +1000, Tim Edwards wrote:
Has anyone noticed that in the latest gaim update (gaim-1.3.1-0.el4.3.i386.rpm) almost all the MSN smiley icons are not included in the package? I've reverted to gaim-1.3.1-0.el4.i386.rpm and they're all there. Is this a bug? and if not why would redhat remove the smiley icons from Gaim?
Hi,
Yes, this has seemingly been done on purpose by Red Hat.
In the spec file appears:
# remove some graphics and map some smilies to others pushd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT rm -f usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/status/default/msn.png install -m 644 %{SOURCE2} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/status/default/msn.png rm -f usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/msn_* cd usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/ ln -s smile.png msn_smiley.png ln -s bigsmile.png msn_laugh.png ln -s yahoo_wink.gif msn_wink.gif ln -s scream.png msn_ooooh.png ln -s tongue.png msn_tongue.png ln -s cool.png msn_sunglasses.png ln -s yell.png msn_angry.png ln -s embarrassed.png msn_embarrassed.png ln -s sad.png msn_sad.png ln -s yahoo_cry.gif msn_cry.gif ln -s angel.png msn_angel.png ln -s crossedlips.png msn_donttell.png ln -s cool.png msn_hot.png ln -s yahoo_eyeroll.gif msn_eyeroll.gif popd
Comment out the following lines from the spec, rebuild the SRPM, install and all your MSN smiley icons will return.
rm -f usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/msn_* cd usr/share/pixmaps/gaim/smileys/default/ ln -s smile.png msn_smiley.png ln -s bigsmile.png msn_laugh.png ln -s yahoo_wink.gif msn_wink.gif ln -s scream.png msn_ooooh.png ln -s tongue.png msn_tongue.png ln -s cool.png msn_sunglasses.png ln -s yell.png msn_angry.png ln -s embarrassed.png msn_embarrassed.png ln -s sad.png msn_sad.png ln -s yahoo_cry.gif msn_cry.gif ln -s angel.png msn_angel.png ln -s crossedlips.png msn_donttell.png ln -s cool.png msn_hot.png ln -s yahoo_eyeroll.gif msn_eyeroll.gif
This "feature" does not appear in any FC SRPM right up the the FC5 development 1.5.0. :-(
Regards
Phil