On 19 January 2011 15:02, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: > Remy CLOUARD <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote: >>> I'd like to move away from the hardcoded backgrounds location for >>> themes, and put them in a distro-neutral path >>> (was /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/ in Mandriva) >>> >>> Most Gnome backgrounds appear to be located in >>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/ (some are in /usr/share/backgrounds/) >>> >>> Is everyone ok to have our backgrounds in >>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/<theme name>/ and the distro default as >>> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/default.jpg ? >>> >> Well, I’d say it would be better if it were also desktop-neutral. >> >> AFAIK, there is one freedesktop specification for icons [1], but not for >> wallpapers, it would be nice to raise this subject on fd.o ml. > > We can raise the subject there, but we should have a fast short-term > decision for Mageia as well, this is blocking for packages import. > > So that would be either /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds, /usr/share/wallpapers, > or /usr/share/backgrounds > > Any idea about how other distros are handling this? > >> I don’t know which package owns /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/, but >> apparently it’s not desktop-common-data. I would rather not having to >> install gnome packages/kde packages for that. > > No packages owns it yet. > $ LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/ > file /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds is not owned by any package > > -- > Olivier Blin - blino >
gnome-screensaver uses /usr/share/backgrounds. I think /usr/share/wallpapers is the best one. -- Ahmad Samir
