On 21 Dic, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > [You (Karl M. Hegbloom)] >> I've created a directory "/usr/X11R6/icons" for my own use. >> that we need to have something like that, and a keeper of the icons. > > We already have the location, and it is standard: > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ > There are over 300 pixmaps in there, a good deal of which are icons. > > As for a "keeper",there are several alternate icons packages. I think > it would be a mistake to try to centralize icon maintenance. > >> All of the mini icons and whatnot from the various packages ought to >> be consolidated into one icon package. > > Why? It sounds so hegemonic! That person would have to maintain icons > for every possible application/service.
That does not mean I agree on centralizing icon maintenance, but a good reason is not to have 2-3-4-5-100 copies of the same icon on the HD. Actually a lot of packages (especially file managers) use the same set of public domain pixmaps and put them in different places :( Just my 2c. Ciao. ************************ ____************************************ * Federico Di Gregorio | / *-=$< ;-) TeX Wizard? * * Debian developer! | / -1 pgp: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * <friend of penguins> |/ try http://www.debian.org * ******************DE 9E B2 75 B4 F6 CC 5B C3 D5 71 51 04 AB F3 B2** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
