On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:15:38 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: > > > It might be better to reserve /usr/share/pixmaps specifically for menu > > icons in xpm format and create /usr/share/icons for png gif and jpeg > > icon images. > Why not putting all icons (xpm, png, ...) into /usr/share/pixmaps and just > use the XPMs for menu and the other for anything else? > At least I think that we are bound to /usr/share/pixmaps at least to > support fredesktop.org standards for the Gnome / KDE icons. If the maintainer > does not provide any PNG but has created an xpm it wold definitely not > hurt in this location. Perhaps a problem for the user would be if there > would be two icons with a similar look (XPM and PNG). > When I looked briefly at the freedesktop standard for Gnome and KDE icons I thought it specified /usr/share/icons and, sure enough there be icons here. There is a lot more stucture here to. /usr/share/icons/Default and others that I looked at have subdirectories ranging from 12x12 up to 192x192 but the contents seems to be specialized to gnome pieces-parts. (the more I look the more complicated it gets...) > Thus it might be even better to define a policy the following way: > > 1. Put all XPMs for the use in Debian-Menu into > /usr/share/menu/pixmaps > 2. Put all PNGs (and others) into /usr/share/pixmaps if they are > intended for applications which follow freedesktop.org specification I don't really see a need for the split. All menu icons should be xpm so any other icons are for some other purpose. > 3. Put a symlink > ln -s /usr/share/menu/pixmaps/<app>.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps > if there is no PNG or whatever icon for this application to support > both Debian-Menu and freedesktop.org These kinds of solutions lead to extra detail in package management and, of course see above ;-) > 4. File bug report or even create automagically via mogrify icons in > /usr/share/menu/pixmaps/ if there are icons in /usr/share/pixmaps > but the maintainer did not provide a XPM following the menu policy > spcification. > What package would be responsible for this mogrification? > > Is it worth while trying to get some general icon policy established or > > am I straigning at gnats? > Would the skecth of a policy above make sense to you? > Simplify, simplify, simplify ;-) Luck, Dwarf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]