Hamish wrote: > > Martin and I agree that all the icons should be put into one place. > > The question is where. The original place identified for GUI icon sets > > was $GISBASE/etc/gui/icons. However, Martin points out that there is a > > real convenience factor for doc page creation to have them in $GISBASE/ > > docs/html/icons. In either place, we should probably have a structure > > like ../icons/grass; ../icons/silk; ../icons/newgrass; etc. > > > > I have no problem with the $GISBASE/docs/html/icons location but > > wanted to see if there are any other considerations we should keep in > > mind as to where the GRASS 7 icon archive should live. > > > IMO $GISBASE/docs/html/icons seems very a strange place to put them, > while $GISBASE/etc/icons seems very natural. Their primary reason for > existence is for the GUI program, the docs are reactionary to that.. > > note that some packagers (Debian...) will, for large softwares, split > the docs from the main program package into a new -docs package. this > is for a couple reasons- one is that some people (eg embedded, old > hardware) want to save the disk space by not installing unneeded docs; > another is to avoid redundancy on the package download servers by > pushing as much platform-neutral data into a single "-any" package and > then have a series of smaller -i386, -arm, -mips, etc. binary > packages. Storing 11 copies of the same docs adds up when you support > 11 hardware platforms. > > The icons are platform neutral so not a problem for the server-space > reason, but very much a problem for the user wants "core only" reason.
IOW, the icons should really be installed into both docs/html/icons (for the documentation) and etc/icons (for the GUI itself). This would also help to facilitate making GRASS behave more like a normal Unix package, with various components installed in subdirectories of /usr (or /usr/local), rather than everything going into a single directory. In that regard, I would expect something like: old new <gisbase> /usr/lib/grass-<version> <gisbase>/bwidget /usr/lib/grass-<version>/bwidget <gisbase>/driver /usr/lib/grass-<version>/driver <gisbase>/etc /usr/lib/grass-<version>/etc <gisbase>/fonts /usr/lib/grass-<version>/fonts <gisbase>/bin/* /usr/bin/* <gisbase>/scripts/* /usr/bin/* <gisbase>/lib/* /usr/lib/* <gisbase>/docs/html /usr/share/doc/grass-<version>/html <gisbase>/include/grass /usr/include/grass <gisbase>/locale/* /usr/share/locale/* <gisbase>/man/man1/* /usr/share/man/man1/* If GISBASE points at /usr/lib/grass-<version>, then it's probably just a case of finding the documentation (HTML and man), and not explicitly specifying $GISBASE/bin (or $GISBASE/scripts) when running GRASS modules. Finding the HTML documentation could be as simple as making $GISBASE/docs a symlink to GRASS' document directory if it's outside of $GISBASE. For the manpages, g.manual can just specify the name rather than a complete path, and rely upon MANPATH being set for the case where everything is under $GISBASE. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev