Ok, I know this was touched on before..

[Philip Dean]

Here is a thought,  Is it just a matter of having an icon and adding one or two lines of code to the application?  Is so could one of the knowledgable programmers here post the code that would be needed to add an icon to an application that doesn't have one.  (This assumes that it is a trivial process)  Then instead of users going to respective apps maintainers and requesting the addition of an icon, we could make a patch and submit it.  I would be willing to learn how to do this as it would give back even if it is just a little.

If the process would be too varing from app to app then maybe this wouldn't be doable.  As it is, I think many users would be willing to patch and compile and even submit the patch if they know how to do it.  There are strong argument on both side of the issue.  I for one, although XFce4 does some things different from how I would prefer, vote for the standard compliance.  There is something to be said for consistancy.

Anyway, just a thought!

Philip Dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
To: "XFce is a lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems." <xfce at xfce.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:57:08 +0200
Subject: Re: Ok, I know this was touched on before..

Really? Now tell me how you change the icons in the taskbar in GNOME or
KDE? We are talking about the icons EMBEDDED in the application, the one
that show in the taskbar, not the icon in the launcher menu (in xfce,
you can put whatever icon you want too)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 17:09, hugh d fegely wrote:
> Granted it has been a while since I used Gnome or KDE, but I do seem to recall that the icons in those both can be user selected.
> 
> Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> had stated the obvious on Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:15:00 +0530 when they said:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 03:20:49 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 
> > > it's quite unrealistic to expect a user to go around nagging applications
> > > which don't live upto some standard adopted by a small project like XFCE.
> > 
> > It isn't just "some standard adopted by a small project like XFCE". Exactly the
> > same fix is needed for the application to display an icon in GNOME or KDE. You
> > will note that even GNOME doesn't adopt this mis-feature to workaround
> > application bugs.
> > 
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