User Installed Icon/Themes

[Curtis L. Knight]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:20:32 +0200, "Waldo Bastian" <bastian at kde.org>
said:
> On Friday 17 September 2004 03:44, Curtis L. Knight wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am trying to get clarification on where user installed icons are to be
> > placed based on the Desktop Base Directory specification and the Icon
> > Theme specification with XDG_* environment variables present.
> >
> > The directories are searched in at least this order from the Icon Theme
> > specification:
> > $HOME/.icons
> > $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons
> > /usr/share/pixmaps
> >
> > The Icon Theme specification states that icons for KDE/GNOME menus
> > should be installed into $prefix/share/icons.
> >
> > There is no overlap between what icons are available to the user
> > (searched) and what directories the user can write to (install).
> > Currently, $XDG_DATA_HOME is not included in the search directories
> > described within the Icon Theme specification. 
> 
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons implies searching $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons as well, as 
> explained in the base dir spec.
> 
> See http://freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html:
> ===================================
> Referencing this specification
> 
> Other specifications may reference this specification by specifying the 
> location of a data file as $XDG_DATA_DIRS/subdir/filename. This implies that: 
> 
> * Such file should be installed to $datadir/subdir/filename with $datadir 
> defaulting to /usr/share. 
> 
> * A user specific version of the data file may be created in 
> $XDG_DATA_HOME/subdir/filename, taking into account the default value for 
> $XDG_DATA_HOME if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not set. 
> 
> * Lookups of the data file should search for ./subdir/filename relative to all 
> base directories specified by $XDG_DATA_HOME and $XDG_DATA_DIRS . If an 
> environment variable is either not set or empty, its default value as defined 
> by this specification should be used instead. 
> ===================================
> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
> 

Hello Waldo,

Thanks for pointing me to the proper text and clarifications.

Is there any initiative to gather the 'search and tell me the icon
location' logic into desktop neutral code like the desktop-file-utils?
It would seem to make a nice compliment to desktop-file-install.

Enjoy,
Curtis