Application Icons

Danny Milosavljevic danny.milo at gmx.net
Sat Sep 11 14:29:34 CEST 2004


Am Samstag, den 11.09.2004, 14:24 +0200 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 10.09.2004, 10:36 -0700 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone:
> > 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.
> 
> well since we are thawn, why not change that too :->. That is, after we
> decided how exactly to get hands on the unknown icon (with fallbacks,
> icontheme, ...)
> 
> And it shouldn't have much impact anyways.

err, IF we dont make it dynamically change icons for already open apps
every time the icon theme is switched.

> 
> :)
> 
> cheers,
>    Danny
> 
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