I think the change from media to static isn't really suse specific. It was changed for the whole project. There is a static/ directory in git and other distros seem to package it to /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/static , too (at least Fedora - Ubuntu just goes crazy with: /usr/share/pyshared/horizon/static/ http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/python-django-horizon/filelist ). So maybe there's no need to mkae the media_urldir configurable, just the path.