On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:25:22AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: > > > > It's defined in the _Menu_ Policy. I think the people maintaining the > > Debian menu system are best placed to tell what should be allowed or > > not. > > It is precisely because the menu policy does not say anything about > icons that I brought this up here. 'man menufile' states that an icon > can be specified but nothing else.
The authoritative document is the menu _manual_: (/usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz), section 3.7 An extract from that section: Debian package maintainers should ensure that any icons they include for use in the Debian menus conform to the following points: 1. The icons should be in xpm format. 2. The icons may not be larger than 32x32 pixels, although smaller sizes are ok. > Note that svg icons work in a gnome environment. Because gramps is > a gnome program and upstream will only be distributing an svg icon > starting with the next major release, I may just stick with that. > There are usually other issues, though, so I was hoping some wisdom > could be found on debian-devel. If your icon is intended to be used with the Debian menu system, it needs to be in a format acceptable to all window-managers in Debian. Unfortunately that means XPM currently [until sarge release]. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.