[Clipart] Where to install?

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 11:34 +0000, Matthew Gates wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was recently a bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3583 
> about getting an OCAL ebuild for gentoo.  I'm willing to have a go at 
> making and submitting the ebuild.  Is there a standard place to put the 
> OCAL files?  I suspect something like /usr/share/ocal/.

Yes, we have discussed this in the past. I'm discussing this on the chat
channel right now.

I think this solution is best. Use the following for all clipart on
*nix. And then inside this have the different released packages and
possible DMS repositories:

    /usr/share/clipart

Then after installing the 0.14 release of openclipart-0.14

    /usr/share/clipart/openclipart-0.14

This would allow for in the future:

    /usr/share/clipart/openclipart-0.15

Also, this would allow for other projects packages:

    /usr/share/clipart/AnyPackage

And, then for future DMS support:

    /usr/share/clipart/dms


So, then, what would the user path be:

~/.clipart/

And then any packages would be like so:

~/.clipart/openclipart-0.14


We could standardize upon this and then also make a basic Makefile to be
included with our packages that would make install to these locations.

Also, if we agreed upon this, we could set any future DMS clients to
download to this location.

This is a standard that should be shared amongst GIMP, Inkscape, other
Gnome Apps, OO.o, Klipart, etc. Do you all agree? I don't think there is
a standard for this. Thoughts?

I just looked through my system and Abiword and Inkscape both have
clipart under there own program folder name like this:


    /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.2/clipart

    /usr/local/share/inkscape/clipart

> While wondering about it, I popped over to #openoffice.org on freenode, 
> and asked them how OOo "finds" clipart libraries, and they said that 
> there was a path in the OOo settings.  The thing is this path is for 
> places where OOo's own thumbnail and index files reside, which at present 
> can only be created by OOo itself.  See the contents of this debian 
> package for an example of the files that need to be generated: 
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/openclipart-openoffice.org
> 
> My guess is that other applications do something similar.  Wouldn't it be 
> better to define some sort of standard for how to locate / parse clipart 
> libraries, and modify applications / clipart libs to conform to the 
> standard?  I think yes (of course), but how might it work - any ideas?

Yes I agree. Well, we need to know more about OO.o and how it finds
clipart and standard clip art paths

> The simplest thing I can think of it to have an environment variable, 
> CLIPART_PATH, have clipart libraries regester their install locations in 
> it, and have applications look in it for places to find clipart.  That 
> leaves interpretting thumbnails / filtering supported file types and such 
> to the applications that use the variable, but it would be a start. 

I think this is a great idea. This is something that needs to be
standardized amongst graphics applications. We could set this using an
included Makefile with our packages. Also, in the future, clients to DMS
could set this as well.

Overall, this is something we need to discuss with other projects that
use Clip Art. Do you all agree?

-- 
Jon Phillips

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