[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

Wed Jan 19 20:16:59 CET 2011

Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> writes:
+
+>>>> 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
+>
+> gnome-screensaver uses /usr/share/backgrounds.
+>
+> I think /usr/share/wallpapers is the best one.
+
+Actually, /usr/share/backgrounds seems pretty good, since
+gnome-control-center uses this directory by default
+I'll use this one temporarily.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+