[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

Wed Jan 19 14:02:08 CET 2011

Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mandriva.org> writes:
+
+> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Olivier Blin wrote:
+>> 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 ?
+>> 
+> 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.
+
+We can raise the subject there, but we should have a fast short-term
+decision for Mageia as well, this is blocking for packages import.
+
+So that would be either /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds, /usr/share/wallpapers,
+or /usr/share/backgrounds
+
+Any idea about how other distros are handling this?
+
+> 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.
+
+No packages owns it yet.
+$ LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/
+file /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds is not owned by any package
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+