On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:19 +0200, Stephan Arts wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Rodney Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: > > The biggest issues I see, are icon themes, cursor themes, and sound > > themes. These are currently installed in separate paths from other > > theme bits, and cursors and icons are both under icons, which is yet > > another issue. I think the best way forward is to probably get the > > specs for those themes updated to install under themes/$NAME/$type > > first, with the current paths listed for backward compat, but as > > deprecated, before getting some spec together that either moves them > > all to some other place independently, or requires lots of code to > > magically install/uninstall them to/from the correct places listed > > in the respective specifications. > > Agreed. So, for the locations we would have something like this: > > $XDG_DATA_DIR/themes/$NAME/$type > > where type can be anything, but has reserved names for: > > icons > cursors > wallpapers > sounds > > which are dedicated to sound-themes, wallpapers, cursors and icons. > Other dirs could be: > > gtk+2.0 > metacity > xfwm4 > > What do you think?
I think we need to get the specs changed (I don't think there is a proper spec for X cursors though). I don't know what KDE does for kwin, KDE, and QT themes, but we'd need to get them changed to be similar as well. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
