Re: /usr/share/pixmaps/ and /usr/share/pixmaps/foo
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:28:04PM +0100, Christian Surchi wrote:
> I'm building a package that installs a png in
> /usr/share/pixmaps/foo/bar.png. I couldn't find any reference to solve
> my doubt. If I have only a file, should I put it in /usr/share/pixmaps
> directly and use subdirectories for several pixmaps? Anyway, I see that
> many gnome pixmaps are there and not in a subdir. What should I do? And
> then, is there a policy about it?
If the package itself is the only thing which is going to use the png
file? If so, it should go in /usr/share/<pkg>/. If it is going to be
more generally used, it should go in /usr/share/pixmaps, as many of
the windows managers don't search whole directory trees for images.
Julian
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