Iconbox Purpose?

[Bob Snyder]

Jack Coates wrote:

>>On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Jack Coates wrote:
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>>>There should be a meaningful icon, if the application provides one via
>>>the
>>>standard ways.
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>>   Thanks, Jack. A number of my applications (e.g., aterms, pine) don't
>>provide such an image. Can one be provided for them?
>>
>>Rich
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>Unfortunately, to X these are all the same application (the terminal
>emulator), so they all get the same icon. People have asked for the
>ability to assign an icon, but it's always been shot down as a
>non-standard extension.
>
>Perhaps the best thing to do would be to ask the freedesktop.org folks or
>the aterm authors for a standard --icon=whatever command line option.
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A note: Eterm has this option now.

Bob S.