What is the best place to install additional icon sets?

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Fri, 9 May 2003 15:40:55 +0700
Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at nsu.ru> wrote:

> <quote author="david at usermode.org">
> I think the best place for the icons is their "default" location, namely
> ${LOCALBASE}/share/icons/<icon_set_name>/. Why? Because there is an
> effort underway to create standard locations for icons and other
> desktop resources (www.freedesktop.org). The only reason GNOME icons  
> aren't there is because GNOME is installed to X11BASE instead of      
> LOCALBASE.                                                            
> It's easy enough to find the icons if you're using GNOME, Windowmaker,
> or something else.                                                    
> </quote>
> 
> It is not all about whether something useful or not in non-X
> environment.  There are other issues out there to consider; and yes,
> my original intention was to put them under
> ${X11BASE}/share/<whatever>(that is, DATADIR with USE_X_PREFIX).

What does ${LOCALBASE} means on the important Linux distributions? Does
it translate into /usr? If yes I would vote for
${X11BASE}/share/icons/<icon_set_name>/ as it fits into our view of
things and IMHO into the Linux POV too.

Bye,
Alexander.

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