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).
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
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
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.
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?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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