The subject is a heads up for my issue, and here's the full story: I'm making a script that will install Eclipse IDE from the binary archives downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Eclipse is quite a standalone, self-contained IDE (provided you have a java vm) that you can untar the archive to any folder (say ~/eclipse) and run directly from there. No install required at all.
Still, my install script tries to set appropriate .desktop file entry, icon, symlink to executable, etc, in a more "proper", XDG-compliant way. It also allows system-wide and user-only installs. So, the basic steps regarding locations are: For system-wide install: - extract to /opt/eclipse - symlink /opt/eclipse/eclipse executable to /usr/bin/eclipse - create a desktop entry in /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop - copy the provided icon in /opt/eclipse/icon.xpm to /usr/share/pixmaps/eclipse.xpm Works great, while trying its best to conform to standard XDG locations. (and yes, I'm using the XDG_DATA* vars, not hardcoding paths) For user install: - extract to ~/.local/opt/eclipse - symlink ~/.local/opt/eclipse/eclipse executable to ~/bin/eclipse - create a desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop - copy the provided icon to... ? See the problem? The obvious place would be ~/.local/share/pixmaps/eclipse.xpm, but that folder is not in search list for icons. For the user I must use ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps. So my issues are: - There's no "symmetry" in system-wide and per-user locations regarding icons, so I must use /usr/share/icons/.. tree for a xpm icon instead of its "natural" place at /usr/share/pixmaps - Or I could hardcode ~/.local/share/pixmaps/eclipse.xpm in it's .desktop file, which is not a recommended practice So, what should I do? Why the Icon Spec does not define ~/.local/share/pixmaps for the user, just /usr/share/pixmaps ? Are pixmaps a legacy dir, and only present in system path for backward-compability? if so, is it ok to place xpm icons in the /usr/share/icons... tree? Should I completely disregard /usr/share/pixmaps? Or should I not care about "symmetry"? What is the best approach to follow? Any background info is highly appreciated Thanks, Rodrigo _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
