Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:22, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > inherit eutils
> >
> > make_desktop_entry pauldv.sh "Paul de Vrieze's custom shell script"
> > pauldv.png
> >
>
> That would be ok to me.

Good, because it's already there... ;p

> > Or use /usr/share/applications for the icon files, since that is the
> > location in the freedesktop specification.  Check out some of the games
> > ebuilds I have made (americas-army, enemy-territory) to see these in
> > action.
>
> I believe there is some specification for iconsets as used by kde and gnome.
> Kde for example provides icons for many applications, and there are also
> iconsets like the one from ximian that provide icons for most common
> applications. We probably want the ability to use those. That means that we
> don't want to overwrite those icons with whatever is specified in the ebuild.
> I don't care that much where they are put in the tree, that is an
> implementation issue.

The locations of the icon themes are independent of the location of the
default icon supplied by the package/ebuild itself.  The default
location is /usr/share/pixmaps and subdirectories.  I know in Gnome, the
icon themes are stored in /usr/share/icons and they override the default
icons in /usr/share/applications.  The way to have an icon override is
to have ti in the proper directory in the icon theme directory structure
and for it to have the same basename.

For example, there can be a /usr/share/pixmaps/pauldv.xpm which is
provided by your own ebuild.  I can create an icon theme in
/usr/share/icons called wolf31o2.  If I create a file called
pauldv.{xpm,png,svg,jpg,etc} in the applications folder of my icon theme
and select my icon theme as my local icon theme, it will ignore the
default icon in /usr/share/pixmaps and use mine instead.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux