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(a)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.