No support for icons and themes snaps

Hi

Can you explain a little more how themes and icons would be used?

One thing I can think of is the content sharing interface but to actually use it here we'd have to have some more information. I suspect the "theme and icon" concept is too generic and we'll end up with *specific* technology-based interface instead (e.g. a GTK theme interface) but I could be wrong.

Ideally the themes and icons should be found in the .icons or .theme folders at the end of the installation or anyway in a place where a theme chooser like unity-tweak-tool could find them.

As there's currently no post-install step to move the files to the mentioned folders, I think that for the moment the user could enable the theme with a command and set it with another (or using his/her preferred theme chooser).

I created a snap package of an icon theme which uses these concepts:
https://github.com/fcole90/ubuntukylin-icon-theme-snap

It currently works only in devmode.

An additional drawback of the set/enable solution based on copying is that updating the snap package would require to enable the icon/theme again. Probably linking would be a better solution, but symlinking from ~ to files in snap/ results in broken links, maybe due to confinement.

As I added more details to the bug, can we mark this as confirmed?

I faced this problem while making a snap package for KStars. I have breeze-icon-theme installed in the integration step:

 integration:
    plugin: nil
    stage-packages:
      - breeze-icon-theme
      - ttf-ubuntu-font-family
    snap:
      - usr/share
      - -usr/share/doc
      - -usr/share/icons/breeze-dark

but KStars cannot load the icons, even in devmode. This is what I have in qt5-launch:

export DESKTOP_SESSION=ubuntu
export XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=ubuntu
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=kde
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde
export QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT=/usr/share/X11/xkb

I'm not sure how to fix this or if this is a limitation of snappy

mutlaqja, I think the problem of yours is a different one, as the bug reported here is for packaging icon-themes or gtk-themes by themselves, to make them available to the user. Try to contact the snapcraft mailing list to have support on your problem and don't miss Tuesday's snapcraft meeting ;)