Icon Theme Spec Patch

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 17:47:46 EEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:15, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. That looks good.

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