Icon Theme Spec Patch

Heinrich Wendel h_wendel at cojobo.net
Mon Sep 22 17:15:34 EEST 2003


On Monday 22 September 2003 16:11, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:12, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> > Sorry, this was still the old patch, now it's correct.
>
>      Icons and themes are looked for in a set of directories. By
> -    default, apps should look in $HOME/.icons, /usr/share/icons and
> -    /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order). Applications may further add
> +    default, apps should look in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons, /usr/share/pixmaps
> +        and for backwards compatibility in $HOME/.icons (in that order).
>
> That order isn't right. Then /usr/share/pixmap (crap super-old fallback
> icons) are used before ~/.icons.

-    default, apps should look in $HOME/.icons, /usr/share/icons and
-    /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order). Applications may further add
+    default, apps should look in $HOME/.icons (for backwards compatibility),
+    in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and in /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order).
+    Applications may further add

this should be correct.

> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>  Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc
>                    alexl at redhat.com    alla at lysator.liu.se

mfg, Heinrich :)



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