Re: IconPath, menu
On 21 Dic, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>
> [You (Karl M. Hegbloom)]
>> I've created a directory "/usr/X11R6/icons" for my own use.
>> that we need to have something like that, and a keeper of the icons.
>
> We already have the location, and it is standard:
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/
> There are over 300 pixmaps in there, a good deal of which are icons.
>
> As for a "keeper",there are several alternate icons packages. I think
> it would be a mistake to try to centralize icon maintenance.
>
>> All of the mini icons and whatnot from the various packages ought to
>> be consolidated into one icon package.
>
> Why? It sounds so hegemonic! That person would have to maintain icons
> for every possible application/service.
That does not mean I agree on centralizing icon maintenance, but a good
reason is not to have 2-3-4-5-100 copies of the same icon on the HD.
Actually a lot of packages (especially file managers) use the same
set of public domain pixmaps and put them in different places :(
Just my 2c. Ciao.
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