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Re: Icon and pixmap location



On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:43:03PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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).

Good idea.

> (1) All pixmaps and bitmaps live in /usr/share/icons.  End of story.
>     *NO* pixmaps or bitmaps will live in /usr/X11R6/include.
[...]
> Either way, I want to do away with /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps, which
> is simply wrong, and /usr/share/pixmaps, which is unnecessary.

"yea". I'll second this kind of proposal.

-- 
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name


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