Re: Icon and pixmap location
> > (1) All pixmaps and bitmaps live in /usr/share/icons. End of story.
> > *NO* pixmaps or bitmaps will live in /usr/X11R6/include.
>
> This one gets my vote.
>
> I think it's a good idea in general, and it'll be trivial for me to alter
> my packages to suit, so I'm not too fussed about what direction is taken.
>
> However, my package uses /usr/share/pixmaps, for a bunch of pixmaps, which
> I think gives a much better description of what is actually _in_ that
> directory, as opposed to /usr/share/icons. I don't have icons, I have
> pixmaps.
What's the difference between a pixmap, bitmap and an icon?
Pixmaps can be used as icons and bitmaps as well.
Add to this the fact that on my system (up-to-date potato), I have
only 8 files in /usr/share/pixmaps, of which 6 are PNG files and only
two are XPM files, I think the distinction is confusing and unhelpful.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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