Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names, & menu icons

[Bastian, Waldo]

At the time that was considered redundant given that $KDEDIR has
traditionally been something like /opt/kde. Distributions started to use
/usr as $KDEDIR at some point in time, I don't think they ever consulted
with KDE when they made that decision. Anyway, this comes down to my
point that if you want to standardize aspects of /usr/share you should
write a XDG spec and reference $XDG_DATA_DIRS. If you don't like KDE
using /usr/share/apps, you shouldn't be installing KDE to /usr :-)

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Richard Tyrer [mailto:tyrerj at acm.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:14 PM
>To: Bastian, Waldo
>Cc: Rodney Dawes; Shaun McCance; xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Re: Multiple DeskTops, HiColor theme, standardized icon names,
&
>menu icons
>
>Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>>> I don't know why KDE chose: "apps" for the subdirectory when: "kde"
>>> would have been a better choice.
>>
>> KDE's file hierarchy is explained here:
>> http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/fsh.php
>
>That doesn't really explain the choice of names for:
>
>	share/apps/
>	share/config/
>
>which are KDE specific but don't include 'kde' in the name.
>
>--
>JRT