Ok, I know this was touched on before..

[hugh d fegely]

it's been a while since I used KDE/Gnome, but I do seem to recall when adding items to the main panel, that there was an option there under the "right click" properties which allowed one to select an icon for said application/button on the panel.

This was in Gnome 1.x -- like I said, it's been a while.

I was using WindowMaker for the last year, and it gives the user the option, but you have to have the correct icon/pixmap directory set up in the configuration files for it, you can't just go browsing anywhere for any icon.

This second option is one I wouldn't mind seeing, if it were possible. Even if it's just a folder inside the user's home directory (or under the .xfce4 directory) where a user can put the icon of choice, named by program name.. so if I copied a generic gnome "email.png" file to ~/.xfce4/icons/sylpheed.png it would then take over as the default for sylpheed.

Just throwing ideas out there..

Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> had stated the obvious on Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:57:08 +0200 when they said:

> 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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