[Icon Theme Spec] Directory Layout

[Stephan Arts]

On 6/16/07, Rodney Dawes <dobey.pwns at gmail.com> wrote:
> This bug is about GTK+ theme paths, not Icon Themes. The argument of GTK
> following the Icon Theme spec is irrelevant here.
>
> -- dobey
>
>
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 09:53 +0200, Stephan Arts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am sending this mail in response to this bug[0], regarding the
> > lookup if themes and icons inside the home directory. The spec
> > describes that apps need to search in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons, and
> > $HOME/.icons (according to the spec: 'for backwards compatibility'),
> > but not in $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons.
> >
> > If $HOME/.icons only exists for backwards-compatibility, then
> > user-installed themes and icons should be located in $XDG_DATA_HOME,
> > right?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stephan
> >
> >
> > [0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447840

That's fine by me.

But the question I had is still valid imho.
Why is ~/.icons referred to as deprecated when it seems there is no
alternative mentioned?

--
Stephan