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<H1>[Mageia-dev] background and theme path</H1>
<B>Olivier Blin</B>
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<PRE>Ahmad Samir <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>> writes:
>>>><i> I'd like to move away from the hardcoded backgrounds location for
</I>>>>><i> themes, and put them in a distro-neutral path
</I>>>>><i> (was /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/ in Mandriva)
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Most Gnome backgrounds appear to be located in
</I>>>>><i> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/ (some are in /usr/share/backgrounds/)
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Is everyone ok to have our backgrounds in
</I>>>>><i> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/<theme name>/ and the distro default as
</I>>>>><i> /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/default.jpg ?
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</I>>>><i> Well, I’d say it would be better if it were also desktop-neutral.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> AFAIK, there is one freedesktop specification for icons [1], but not for
</I>>>><i> wallpapers, it would be nice to raise this subject on fd.o ml.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> We can raise the subject there, but we should have a fast short-term
</I>>><i> decision for Mageia as well, this is blocking for packages import.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> So that would be either /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds, /usr/share/wallpapers,
</I>>><i> or /usr/share/backgrounds
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Any idea about how other distros are handling this?
</I>>><i>
</I>>>><i> I don’t know which package owns /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/, but
</I>>>><i> apparently it’s not desktop-common-data. I would rather not having to
</I>>>><i> install gnome packages/kde packages for that.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> No packages owns it yet.
</I>>><i> $ LC_ALL=C rpm -qf /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/
</I>>><i> file /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds is not owned by any package
</I>><i>
</I>><i> gnome-screensaver uses /usr/share/backgrounds.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I think /usr/share/wallpapers is the best one.
</I>
Actually, /usr/share/backgrounds seems pretty good, since
gnome-control-center uses this directory by default
I'll use this one temporarily.
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Olivier Blin - blino
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