[Mageia-dev] background and theme path

[J.A. Magallón]

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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