On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:11:29AM +0000, Mark Baker wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 09:51:43AM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: > > Then the user should not search for icons and all programs with icons > > (like windowmanager) search in the same directory. > > Yes, I agree. > > > We should discuss this policy a second time. Is this idea so bad? > > Packages with a lot of icons and backgrounds and so on, should package > > two packages: package-bin package-icons. (like gnome). Then all > > user can install the icons without the program. > > Yes. > > But are you really so stupid you can't distinguish between generally useful > pixmaps such as those that come with window managers and file managers and > ones that are used within a particular program? > > We have a few standard directories for executables. Should we put all the > scripts and things that are currently under /usr/lib/$(package) into them? > Of course we don't. They're not of any use to the user and would cause > namespace pollution. Why do you think pixmaps are any different? > Scripts and Progarms under /usr/lib/$(package) are programs, that not for the User. Like pinepgp/sign or news/bin/* and so on. (This programs are not in PATH and hasn't a man-page.) This program are not for user or systemuser (like root). Alle Programs for User (or root) are in ONE directory /usr/bin! (in /bin are only programs, that use on boot-time or to repair of a system. and programs in /usr/sbin are only for root) So I say: Alle icons should go in ONE directory. So the User have on 'ICONPATH' and shouldn't search for the nice icons. When you don't like /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps, we should move the icons to /usr/share/icons/ ? Is his a better place ? Grisu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org