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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/03/2012 11:38 AM, Didier Roche wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Most of assets for unity are in a versionned unity path, like
> /usr/share/unity/5/. This mean that for each major version of unity, all
> lenses have to be rebuilt to take the right new path
> (/usr/share/unity/6/ for instance). Those rebuilds are quite painful for
> no gain. Does anyone remember why we did some versionned path? It seems
> that my memory is failing on me (was it only for the mutter -> compiz
> transition?)
>
> If there is no good reason that anyone can remember of, I propose to put
> those assets in /usr/share/unity/data or images ;)

I don't recall any particular reason. I do recall having pains dealing 
with it ever since the Unity inception though ;-)

The only benefit as I see it is parallel installability, which might 
make life a little easier for developers that likes to work via PPAs. 
For the cool guys that use jhbuild this not an issue of course ;-)

Cheers,
Mikkel