Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 20:15:07 -0700 From: David Johnson <david@usermode.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: kde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the best place to install additional icon sets? Message-ID: <200305092015.07734.david@usermode.org> In-Reply-To: <20030510020810.GS70324@vectors.cx> References: <20030509062810.GA48885@regency.nsu.ru> <200305091850.10023.david@usermode.org> <20030510020810.GS70324@vectors.cx>
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On Friday 09 May 2003 07:08 pm, Adam Weinberger wrote: > You quoted the part of the handbook that says that stuff that links > against X goes in /usr/X11R6. Your reason for feeling the need to > defend KDE against GNOME completely eludes me here. My use of the term "second class citizen" was merely sarcasm to drive home a point. Why should KDE icons go in one hiearchy but KDE itself into another? My personal opinion is that both KDE and GNOME should be installed to the same hierarchy. As near as I can tell, the reason they are in different hierarchies is purely historical: nobody bitched very loud when the first port for one or the other used the wrong prefix. > The whole thing is one simple question: where would people be most > likely to find the icons and use them? In a non-KDE-centric > environment, I'd be most likely to look in /usr/X11R6/share/* for > subdirectories that are iconsets. It doesn't much matter where they go, so long as *KDE* can use them. This is because the icons in question are *KDE* icons. And until KDE implements the XDG specs (in probably the KDE-4.0 timeframe), it will not be able to use those icons if they are in /usr/X11R6. Let me repeat again, since this point is being lost somewhere in the translation: KDE cannot use KDE iconsets if said iconsets are not installed in the KDE hierarchy. In /usr/X11R6 they will be usable by GNOME but not KDE. If they are installed in /usr/local they will be usable by KDE but not GNOME. Since these are KDE icons and not GNOME icons, I think it makes sense to KDE priority in the case of KDE icons. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org
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