Tom Lane wrote:
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.
If you dumped the icons directly into the toplevel of /usr/share/icons,
that's most definitely NOT compliant with the icon theme spec, and that'll
explain why the tool complained about it. Icons in /usr/share/icons MUST be
installed according to the icon theme spec. /usr/share/pixmaps is the
directory where you can just dump an image file, but that practice is indeed
deprecated (the main reason being that that simplistic approach cannot
support multiple sizes; it also doesn't allow icon themes to supply themed
versions of the icons).
Kevin Kofler