Application Icons

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Sep 10 19:36:49 CEST 2004


On 09/10/04 13:54, Frank Schmitt wrote:
> Hello
> 
> If an application doesn't provide an icon, XFCE uses a quite ugly
> default icon in taskbar, iconbox, switch-to-dialog etc. KDE has a quite
> clever solution for this:
> 
> If the application provides an icon, it is used. If the application
> doesn't, KDE looks for /usr/share/icons/$XRessourceNameOfApp.png and
> uses this file if present.

i'm thinking it would be more likely to be in $datadir/pixmaps than in
$datadir/icons, but whatever.  it would also be nice to be able to theme the
'unknown' icon in the case that nothing suitable can be found.

	-brian



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