[Fedora-packaging] desktop file icon/pixmap locations

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 22:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> One point: I'd suggest that we *not* require conversion of upstream
> >> icon files to a uniform file format, so long as what upstream supplies
> >> will work (ie, please no "thou shalt convert xpm to png" in the
> >> guidelines).
> 
> > I'm pretty sure that png and xpm are supported at a minimum, possibly
> > other formats as well.
> 
> Hmmm ... using file(1) on an F-8 workstation I find this under
> /usr/share/pixmaps and /usr/share/icons:
[snip]
> How many of these icons actually work as expected is an interesting
> question, but clearly there's a variety of formats that packages *think*
> are supported.  PNG is by far the majority though, and it looks like the
> usages of the stranger formats are confined to a few packages each.
> Maybe we *should* standardize on PNG here --- it appears that only a few
> packages would be affected by a conversion requirement.

SVG is also definitely a reasonable alternative to png -- it gives
scalable icons which will be more important as we begin to get devices
with resolutions on both the high and the low end of the spectrum

Jeremy