Ok, I know this was touched on before..

[hugh d fegely]

Ok, I've been gone for the last four days since Isabel came to town and took out my power until just now...

If the icon box is finding a bitmap, jpeg, png, or other graphic as an icon for programs, where is it finding them? are they built into the programs themselves then (like windoze programs) or are they in a default directory I can add, say "sylpheed.png" and have it use that instead of the default boxes icon..

I'm not a programmer, otherwise I'd try and sit here, tear it down, and put the fix in myself. I'm wondering how a simple end-user like myself can make such a change?




Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> had stated the obvious on Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:39:02 +0530 when they said:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:47:00 -0700, Bob Snyder wrote:
> 
> > Since iconbox can recognize when an app has no icon, and displays the 
> > default icon, why couldn't the iconbox be changed so that when it sees 
> > an app with no icon it allows the user to pick a different 'default' 
> > icon for each one?
> 
> Because thats a hack to work around broken apps. One of the unwritten rules
> we've followed in XFce4 development is that we will not add work arounds for
> broken apps.
> 
> One of the reasons why there are so many X applications that don't follow
> standards is because every WM has work arounds for common screw-ups. Since it is
> so easy to ignore them nobody bugs the developers to fix these bugs.
> 
> The icon issue is pretty trivial to fix, so there isn't much of an excuse for
> applications not to fix it.
> 
> -- b
> 
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