On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:53:08 +0100, Remy CLOUARD <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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 ? > > > > Thanks > 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. > > 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. > > Regards, > > [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/icon-theme-spec Some ideas: - pixmap != background/wallpaper, so better /usr/share/{backgrounds,wallpapers} - as probably in a future will also exist shared sounds, videos or other things, and as there is no XDG standard, why not group everything in something like /usr/share/media/{wallpaper,image,audio,video} ? -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free
