Re: Icon and pixmap location

[eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)]

Well, I updated Xcontrib last night (in response to a different bug
report) such that it doesn't use /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps, which was
an error, instead it uses /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps.  Note that:

$ ls -al /usr/include/X11 
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           20 Sep 23 09:31 /usr/include/X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11 

so this is the same as /usr/include/X11/bitmaps;  fvwm would be well
suited to pick one of
	/usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps
	/usr/include/X11/bitmaps
(and probably the latter, since it is more generic) since they will be
the exact same thing on a working debian system.

Note that these bitmaps *do* belong under /usr/include, because they
are really C include files: they have #define's for width and height,
and then an array of data.  More importantly, X based programs already
have the convention of doing #include <bitmaps/rdblarrow> and getting
the appropriate bitmap at compile time, if they want it...  so don't
expect that path to go away.

As a result of that upload, my system no longer has anything at all in
/usr/X11r6/include/bitmaps, so I think we've just achieved a big chunk
of your proposal #2...
			_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
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