[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

Thu Jan 20 01:59:29 CET 2011

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:53:08 +0100, Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mandriva.org> wrote:
+
+> 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
+
+Some ideas:
+
+- pixmap != background/wallpaper, so better /usr/share/{backgrounds,wallpapers}
+- as probably in a future will also exist shared sounds, videos or other
+  things, and as there is no XDG standard, why not group everything in something
+  like /usr/share/media/{wallpaper,image,audio,video} ?
+
+
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