Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:48 -0800, Eric Smith wrote:
> 1) Is putting the icon into /usr/share/pixmap OK?
Not really. That dir is obsolescent, effectively. I'm not sure if
we'll
ever manage to throw it away, but if you have the opportunity to control
icon deployment for an app, it's really best to use the /usr/share/icons
hierarchy, as it provides a lot of advantages over the 'dump a single
picture in one huge directory' model.
Now I'm really confused, because I received the opposite advice a couple
of years ago, cf unixODBC.spec:
* Fri Jun 13 2008 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 2.2.12-8
- Install icons in /usr/share/pixmaps, not /usr/share/icons as this package
has historically done; the former is considered correct.
Digging further, the reason I changed it is because Red Hat's rpmdiff
tool whinged about the previous placement. Somebody is not on the right
page here.
regards, tom lane