[maemo-developers] proper icon path

[From: David King]

On 2010-04-06 15:35, Stefanos Harhalakis <v13 at v13.gr> wrote:
>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).

I would also like to know this, as I was going to edit a few wiki pages 
that mention install locations for icons. However, all the locations 
above seem to work just fine (I tested with a few applications), and the 
freedesktop.org icon naming specification suggests that ‘apps’ is the 
correct subdirectory to use:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#context

Daniel, is /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/ the canonical 
location for all application icons on Fremantle, and if so, where is 
this documented?

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