On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:55:08PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: > > > There currently is no policy on where icons should end up; (the only > > > thing approaching policy is the documentation that comes with the menu > > > package - no, the FHS doesn't specify this even though it should) as a > > > result, xpm icons can end up almost anywhere. This makes it difficult > > > to write icon paths that do what users expect; that is, to configure > > > our respective window managers so that all the proper icons are found. > > > > Problem with that is xpms with the same names belonging to different > > packages and having different images inside them. > > [2 <application/pgp-signature>] > > Did you read the rest of the proposal?
Yes, And I thought I gave more than that for a reply... =p Here goes nothing... > Packages which have icons > (which may not just be xpm files) that are intended for their own use > only (and therefore, are not intended to be found by window managers) > will put them in package-specific directories, and may happily use > generic-sounding names. Packages with icons that are intended to be > found by window managers must use non-generic names. What I am concerned with isn't that, but specific icons and things which come with windowmanagers or other similar things. It sounds like you generally want them in one place, and that seems to be not the best idea IMO. > I'm not trying to have an icon path that finds every possible xpm on > the system. I'm trying to make it so that icons which are intended to > be used by window managers are findable. I think that was not clear to me when I first read your proposal. > I don't expect, for example, > to write icon paths that find the various xbm files xemacs uses to > determine what its buttons look like. However, I expect xemacs to put > icons like the gnu head or kitchen sink (which are intended to be used > for an iconified xemacs) into a common directory and to use names that > are package specific when doing so. But wouldn't you want themes.org tiles where anyone could find them? See what I mean yet?
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