What is the best place to install additional icon sets?

[David Johnson]

On Friday 09 May 2003 02:45 pm, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> X stuff goes under /usr/X11R6.

But are icons "X stuff"? And if they are, then why isn't KDE considered 
"X stuff" as well? Is KDE a second class citizen that GNOME can be 
installed there but KDE cannot?

Another thing to consider is that KDE at least should be able to use 
icons created specifically for it. That means KDE icons should be 
installed to 'kde-config --path icon', which on FreeBSD equates to 
/usr/local/share/icons/. KDE-3.2 or KDE-4 will be more flexible, but as 
of right now, KDE-3.1.1 wants to see KDE icons in the same hierarchy as 
KDE. It makes absolutely no sense for KDE icons to go in X11BASE but 
KDE libraries to go in LOCALBASE.

And to finish up, a quote from the porter's handbook:

"Do not set USE_X_PREFIX unless your port truly requires it (i.e., it 
links against X libs or it needs to reference files in X11BASE)."

-- 
David Johnson
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