Bug 759286 – question about x11 cursors themes installation directory

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Fab 2020-12-09 20:50:36 UTC]

Hi,

May I ask why some X11 cursors themes are installed into /usr/share/icons :
> $ grep -R '/usr/share/icons' /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/*-xcursors
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/neutral-xcursors/neutral-xcursors-20150106.ebuild:		insinto /usr/share/icons/${NEUTRAL_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/neutral-xcursors/neutral-xcursors-20150106.ebuild:		insinto /usr/share/icons/${PLUS_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/neutral-xcursors/neutral-xcursors-20150106.ebuild:		insinto /usr/share/icons/${PLUSPLUS_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/neutral-xcursors/neutral-xcursors-20150106.ebuild:		insinto /usr/share/icons/${WHITE_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ-AA/cursors
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-aa-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ-AA
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ/cursors
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/icons/Vanilla-DMZ

While other themes are installed into /usr/share/cursors :
> $ grep -R 'insinto /usr/share/cursors' /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/*-xcursors
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/blueglass-xcursors/blueglass-xcursors-0.4.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/Blue
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/gentoo-xcursors/gentoo-xcursors-0.3.2.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/haematite-xcursors/haematite-xcursors-1.0.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/${MY_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/obsidian-xcursors/obsidian-xcursors-1.0.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/${MY_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/pearlgrey-xcursors/pearlgrey-xcursors-1.0.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/${MY_PN}
> /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-themes/silver-xcursors/silver-xcursors-0.4.ebuild:	insinto /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/Silver

Thanks.

[Comment 1 Jonas Stein 2020-12-13 12:45:02 UTC]

The definition of x11 themes is here 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html

[Comment 2 Fab 2020-12-13 15:03:20 UTC]

Yes, but icons != cursors.

Look at vanilla-dmz-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild⁽¹⁾. Currently all files are installed into /usr/share/icons.
But if you look the historical tree⁽²⁾, they were installed into /usr/share/cursors.

Why this theme is installed into /usr/share/icons while most of the others are installed into /usr/share/cursors ?

(Why do I ask this ? because this break bug #464826.)

1. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-xcursors-0.4.5.ebuild
2. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo/historical.git/tree/x11-themes/vanilla-dmz-xcursors/vanilla-dmz-xcursors-0.4.ebuild

[Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens 2021-01-08 07:16:26 UTC]

Sorry for late reply, but had a look at this and every themes installing in /usr/share/cursors seem to be the wrong ones.

In case of vanilla-dmz-xcursors this was introduced by bug #554920 with the intend to fix the paths. Debian it mentions does install cursor themes in /usr/share/icons/<theme>/cursors, so does Arch, and likely others.

Some external documentation[1] also points to:
~/.local/share/icons/<theme>/cursors

Given can call them "cursor icons" it doesn't necessarily make no sense.

If you wish for changes, please file bugs against individual specific packages so they can be assigned rather than a broad question. So I'll close this one.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes#Manually