Last Saturday 12 March 2005 17:15, Bill Allombert was like: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:23:03PM +0000, tim hall wrote: > > OK, thanks for that information. For now, I just want to encourage > > multimedia maintainers to include .pngs. So, can I take it that > > /usr/share/pixmaps/ the best place to put them? I notice there are some > > .svgs in here too. I ask because there is increasing usage of > > /usr/share/icons/ by both GNOME and KDE apps (all .png & .svg AFAICT) and > > /usr/share/images/ is being used by A/DeMuDi for wallpapers & splash > > screens and the like. > > I think this more a question for debian-policy that to menu:
Ah, good, so I was on the right channel after all. ;-) > Do we have guidelines about the placement of icons, images, etc. ? > Currently we have at least > > /usr/share/icons/ > /usr/share/pixmaps/ > /usr/share/images/ > /usr/share/wallpapers/ > > Should icons be in /usr/share/icons/ or in /usr/share/$pkg/ ? At present we have: menu icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/ - supposedly 32x32px .xpms, but this location is also used for .png and .svg sometimes located in /usr/share/pixmaps/$pkg. other icons in /usr/share/icons/ - sorted by Theme and then organised into sizes (16x16 -> 128x128) and 'scalable' (for.svgs). These appear to be for KDE and GNOME .desktop icons - they are all .pngs and .svgs, so by definition non-menu icons (?). The other two locations you mentioned above are not currently used to hold icons. IMO putting icons anywhere other than /usr/share/pixmaps/ will have users searching all over their systems when they want to create custom launchers. AFAICT The two most obvious locations for .png menu icons for applications are therefore: (in order) /usr/share/pixmaps/$pkg.png /usr/share/icons/Default/apps/$pkg.png or even: /usr/share/icons/$theme/apps/$pkg.png Although the latter prevents having to provide duplicate resources, it seems potentially more complicated to me. On some level it's not an issue if the package references its icon correctly from the menu file, however few packages really do this. I remember searching for hours/days for the Rosegarden4 icon. It has to be user-findable as well. > I don't have strong opinion either ways, but I would prefer consistency. My suggestion: Menu Icons MUST have /usr/share/pixmaps/$pkg.xpm MAY also have /usr/share/pixmaps/$pkg.png This is already current practice for a lot of applications in AGNULA/DeMuDi. And it's very simple to explain. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
