[maemo-developers] proper icon path

Tue Apr 6 15:35:44 EEST 2010

On Tuesday 06 of April 2010, daniel wilms wrote:
> ext Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > I'm currently using /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/, but I see other
> > applications using /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/hildon, or even
> > /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps and
> > /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon.
> > 
> > Is there a "proper" location or is everything acceptable?
> 
> The proper location for the icons is in:
> 
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/

Thank you for clarifying that.

Is there a reason why "scalable" was chosen? AFAIK for desktop systems this is 
supposed to hold "scalable" graphics like SVGs while bitmaps icons are 
supposed to go under /usr/share/icons/hicolor/AxB/ (AxB being the dimension) 
(or perhaps I know wrong).