[Fedora-packaging] desktop file icon/pixmap locations

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:29:15AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 23:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> writes:
> > > Supported formats for themed icons are xpm, png and svg. Thus, if you
> > > install the icon below /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ it should be in one of
> > > those formats. If you install it in /usr/share/pixmaps, it can really be
> > > anything, but traditionally, that directory is for xpms. In the desktop
> > > file, the icon should be either specified as a full path (including
> > > extension) or as an icon name (without extension), the latter being
> > > preferred. 
> > 
> > I guess the appropriate question for this list is "where is all that
> > documented?"
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ 
> is the spec describing .desktop files
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
> is the spec describing icon themes

Thanks for the pointer.  I've decided to follow this spec for 
installing upstream's xpm icons into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/{16x16,48x48}/apps.