Icon and pixmap location

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

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This message is about bitmaps and pixmaps which are intended to be
"public", that is, for use by more than just one program or small
group of programs.  Thus it would include an icon to be used by a
window manager to represent an iconified xterm, but not icons for a
directory listing in Apache.

I just uploaded a new version of fvwm which has PixmapPath and
IconPath (for bitmaps) entries which match the current situation for
public icons in potato.  They are as follows (split for readability):

PixmapPath /usr/local/share/icons:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmaps:\
  /usr/include/X11/pixmaps
IconPath /usr/local/share/icons:/usr/share/icons:/usr/include/X11/bitmaps:\
  /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps

This is patently absurd: there is no need to have *three* locations of
pixmaps and three for bitmaps on our systems, in addition to a
location for locally installed icons.  I want to standardise the
location (it is not discussed by the FHS).  Subsequent to various
suggestions here and on the fhs-discuss list, I want to make two
suggestions of which one should be implemented:

(1) All pixmaps and bitmaps live in /usr/share/icons.  End of story.
    *NO* pixmaps or bitmaps will live in /usr/X11R6/include.

(2) Pixmaps are allowed to live in either /usr/share/icons or
    /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps (aka: /usr/include/X11/pixmaps).
    Bitmaps are similarly allowed to live in either /usr/share/icons
    or /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps (aka: /usr/include/X11/bitmaps).

Either way, I want to do away with /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps, which
is simply wrong, and /usr/share/pixmaps, which is unnecessary.

Please give your comments before I make a proposal.

Thanks,

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg