On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 16:25 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:48 -0800, Eric Smith wrote: > >> 1) Is putting the icon into /usr/share/pixmap OK? > > > Not really. That dir is obsolescent, effectively. I'm not sure if we'll > > ever manage to throw it away, but if you have the opportunity to control > > icon deployment for an app, it's really best to use the /usr/share/icons > > hierarchy, as it provides a lot of advantages over the 'dump a single > > picture in one huge directory' model. > > Now I'm really confused, because I received the opposite advice a couple > of years ago, cf unixODBC.spec: > > * Fri Jun 13 2008 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.2.12-8 > - Install icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, not /usr/share/icons as this package > has historically done; the former is considered correct. > > Digging further, the reason I changed it is because Red Hat's rpmdiff > tool whinged about the previous placement. Somebody is not on the right > page here. I'm going to say it's rpmdiff. /usr/share/pixmaps is definitely older than the icon theme spec, and the icon theme spec is explicitly intended to sort out various shortcomings in the 'just put a single bitmap-type image file in /usr/share/pixmaps' method. It is always a distinct possibility that I could be wrong, of course, and if that's the case I'm sure someone will point it out ASAP. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
