On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 23:10 -0500, Jonathan Thomas wrote: > So, here is the question. If I understand correctly, the OpenShot > icon should go in the ~/.icons folder.
No, the debian package will install the icon (via the "debian/openshot.install" file) to the system location /usr/share/pixmaps/. I did some more digging this morning and found that there is a Python package on Ubuntu - "python-xdg" - that wraps the Free Desktop XDG specifications nicely - I assume it'll be available widely for Python on other distros since it comes from: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg dpkg-query -L python-xdg shows it includes some useful examples including one specifically for Icons: /usr/share/doc/python-xdg/examples/test-icon.py Which contains: #!/usr/bin/python from xdg.IconTheme import * print getIconPath("opera") Using this I did a test (after having installed the openshot package I'm developing) which shows it works using getIconPath(): $ python Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from xdg.IconTheme import * >>> print getIconPath("openshot_logo") /usr/share/pixmaps/openshot_logo.png >>> print getIconPath("openshot") None >>> I can have the openshot package depend on python-xdg so you can rely on it being available if that is something you want to do? The only objects that should go in the user's folder are per-user, per-session settings and (temporary) resources related to the application configuration or projects. Don't let me confuse you into thinking anything related to the core application and its resources should be anywhere other than in sytem locations! Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
