[Fedora-packaging] desktop file icon/pixmap locations

[Tom Lane]

Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> writes:
> Where should icons for desktop files be stored?  Some packages use 
> /usr/share/pixmaps.  Others use subdirectories under 
> /usr/share/pixmaps (some directories are unowned too).  Some use a 
> private directory under /usr/share/<name>.  Still others use 
> /usr/share/icons/.

Red Hat's rpmdiff tool has recently started to complain if desktop
icon files are not underneath /usr/share/pixmaps/, so apparently there
is policy to that effect somewhere.  Unowned directories are certainly
verboten too.  I have no idea if there's any existing policy about your
other questions.

One point: I'd suggest that we *not* require conversion of upstream
icon files to a uniform file format, so long as what upstream supplies
will work (ie, please no "thou shalt convert xpm to png" in the
guidelines).  Doing that would require BuildRequire'ing some image
conversion package or other, which seems like a pretty heavyweight
build dependency for hardly any real gain.

			regards, tom lane