What is the best place to install additional icon sets?

[David Johnson]

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