Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> I'd like to move away from the hardcoded backgrounds location for >>>> themes, and put them in a distro-neutral path >>>> (was /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/ in Mandriva) >>>> >>>> Most Gnome backgrounds appear to be located in >>>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/ (some are in /usr/share/backgrounds/) >>>> >>>> Is everyone ok to have our backgrounds in >>>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/<theme name>/ and the distro default as >>>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/default.jpg ? >>>> >>> Well, I’d say it would be better if it were also desktop-neutral. >>> >>> AFAIK, there is one freedesktop specification for icons [1], but not for >>> wallpapers, it would be nice to raise this subject on fd.o ml. >> >> We can raise the subject there, but we should have a fast short-term >> decision for Mageia as well, this is blocking for packages import. >> >> So that would be either /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds, >> /usr/share/wallpapers, >> or /usr/share/backgrounds >> >> Any idea about how other distros are handling this? >> >>> I don’t know which package owns /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/, but >>> apparently it’s not desktop-common-data. I would rather not having to >>> install gnome packages/kde packages for that. >> >> No packages owns it yet. >> $ LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/ >> file /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds is not owned by any package > > gnome-screensaver uses /usr/share/backgrounds. > > I think /usr/share/wallpapers is the best one.
Actually, /usr/share/backgrounds seems pretty good, since gnome-control-center uses this directory by default I'll use this one temporarily. -- Olivier Blin - blino