Re: [Lpr-discuss] pixmaps

[Ben W. <be...@va...>]

> So I'm not sure if I heard correctly, but I'm curious about the gpr
> pixmaps directory.  I think we were talking about this before.  
> 
> Basically, it runs gnome-config --datadir and appends "/pixmaps/gpr"
> on the end of it.  This ends up coming out as /usr/share/pixmaps/gpr
> on my system, REGARDLESS of what the --prefix is.  
> 
> Would anyone mind if I just changed that to
> ${prefix}/share/pixmaps/gpr/ ?  Is there some particular reason why
> the gnome-config program has to be used?  Are other gnome apps using
> these pixmaps?  

I had the configure.in setting the location of the pixmaps to what I
think that they sshould be. However, gpr wasn't able find them. I
guess Mark P fixed the bug by making the pixmaps always go into
/usr. As far as I am concerned this IS NOT an appropriate solution
because it makes it impossible for a normal user to install a fully
functional version of gpr. I think that we should move the pixmaps
back to where I had them (look back a couple of versions in the
configure.in) and then add additional logic to gpr to find the pixmaps
if the gnome people haven't come up with a better solution
already. Could someone please get on the correct gnome mailing list
and figure out what the RIGHT way to solve this problem is. My
requirement is that gpr must install and function properly when
installed by a normal user who has no permission to write to /usr/. 

I guess I am still thinking about Sun land where you are given a
workstation with pathetic software and a NFS mounted read-only /usr
partition. The only way I could make my solaris box livable is by
installing 500 gnu utilities.

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