icon theme directory layout
Benedikt Meurer
benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Feb 24 09:39:21 CET 2004
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> hi all-
>
> i'm playing with GtkIconTheme a bit more, and there's a bit of a
> problem. there's the easy quick-and-dirty non-standard-compliant
> solution: stick an index.theme file in each directory under
> /usr/share/xfce4/themes that points to itself. this, however, is not
> standards-compliant
> (http://freedesktop.org/Standards/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-0.8.html#directory_layout).
> what we should really do is rearrange it so we have themed dirs that
> look like this (this will only look right with a fixed-width font):
>
> /usr/share/xfce4/themes
> `-- Lush/
> |-- index.theme
> |-- scalable/
> | `-- apps/
> | `-- *.svg
> |-- 48x48/
> | `-- apps/
> | |-- *.png (48x48 images)
> | `-- *.xpm ( " " )
> `-- 24x24/
> `-- apps/
> |-- *.png (24x24 images)
> `-- *.xpm ( " " )
>
> the index.theme file is pretty simple:
>
> [Icon Theme]
> Name=Lush
> Comment=The Lush Theme
> Directories=scalable/apps,48x48/apps,24x24/apps
> [scalable/apps]
> Size=48
> Context=Applications
> Type=Scalable
> [ ... and so on ... ]
>
> this is the "right way" to do it, and i wouldn't mind doing the tedious
> work of reorganising everything. well, ok, i'm not really looking
> forward to it, but i'll do it anyway.
>
> so, what do we think?
Well, this is something I wanted to have for a long time! I say: Go on, man.
> -brian
Benedikt
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