On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:01:26PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I've just been looking at Contents-i386 to get an idea of where
> bitmaps and pixmaps are currently stored so that I can set up the new
> system.fvwm2rc file correctly, and I found a mess. The locations of
> public (as opposed to application-specific) bitmaps and pixmaps are
> currently:
>
> bitmaps: /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps
This is wrong.
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps
This is correct.
> pixmaps: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps
This is correct.
> /usr/share/pixmaps
This is wrong.
> Is there any reason why we can't try to standardise the choice of
> location? I've brought this topic up before, but hadn't noticed the
> bitmaps situation at the time.
I think we should standardize around /usr/include/X11/{bitmap,pixmap}.
/usr/include/X11 is currently a symlink to /usr/X11R6/include/X11.
Packages should install files in the latter path and refer to the former.
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