On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > > "Debian Menu System" document > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html#s3.7 > > giving more glory details on menu states that > > a. "Icons should generally be installed in the directory > > /usr/share/pixmaps" > > so general location is known/standardized > > b. gives examples without full paths: > > icon=path-to-pixmap.xpm > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > "path-to-pixmap" is intended to mean the full path to the icon.
d'oh -- skimmed too quickly I guess... although could be improved as icon=/path/to/pixmap.xpm to make it easier to catch? > If you look at other examples in the menu manual you find: > icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/gnumeric.xpm" the path to the icon to use. > icon=/usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/emacs.xbm yeap -- saw those example as well ;) not parsing "path-to-pixmap.xpm" let me think that any form is allowed > > if we end up fixing to the full path, we should then also fix > > menu-policy (CCing debian-policy maintainers) to describe the need > > of full path in icon entry? > The specification does not provide a list of standard location for icons. /usr/share/pixmaps sounds like one advised > So far, the intent has been to include the full path to the icon. thus forbidding any possible future theming etc... but ok -- I see it now to be a 'common practice', so would just comply with it. Thanks and sorry for the noise -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org