[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

Wed Jan 19 13:53:08 CET 2011

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
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