[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

Wed Jan 19 14:06:33 CET 2011

On 19 January 2011 15:02, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> 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
+>
+
+gnome-screensaver uses /usr/share/backgrounds.
+
+I think /usr/share/wallpapers is the best one.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+