Where should icons for desktop files be stored? Some packages use /usr/share/pixmaps. Others use subdirectories under /usr/share/pixmaps (some directories are unowned too). Some use a private directory under /usr/share/<name>. Still others use /usr/share/icons/. Icon=/usr/share/sane/xsane/xsane-logo.xpm >rpm -ql gnome-utils | grep /usr/share/pixmaps /usr/share/pixmaps/gsearchtool/thumbnail_frame.png file /usr/share/pixmaps/gsearchtool is not owned by any package How should the icon be referred to in a desktop file? Some use absolute paths, others no path at all. desktop-file-install complains if there is a relative or partial path. Icon=/usr/share/system-config-lvm/pixmaps/lv_icon.png Icon=/usr/share/system-config-selinux/system-config-selinux.png Some desktop file icons don't use an extention, but some do: Icon=accessories-calculator Icon=accessories-dictionary.png It looks like the majority of the desktop files on my F9 system are using the form without an extension. All of this is confusing. For new applications, what should they use? What are the semantics for the various syntaxes that are used? What should be done for upstream packages that have icons? What if they are in xpm format rather than png? Thanks. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
