Re: [gnome-love] AppIcon in a PyGTK application

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Jan 13, 2008 4:29 PM, Trond Andersen <trond andersen gmail com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> The Meld application has gotten tangoified icons in the following
> Bugzilla case:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395919
>
> The patch isn't included because of the lacking support in the build
> setup. I've tried to look at this, but I'm a bit confused about how
> these things work. I've patched the GNUMakefile to install and remove
> all the tangoified icons and this seems to work alright. But I have
> two issues:
>
> - What is the PyGTK method for doing the following in C:
>
>   g_set_application_name (_("Gurilla"));

gtk.set_application_name

>   gtk_window_set_default_icon_name ("gurilla");

gtk.window_set_default_icon_name ("gurilla");

A tip: Try google code search if you want to know how something is
done in python

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=set_application_name+lang%3Apython&btnG=Search

> - If the application uses glade files to setup the UI, how do you make
> sure that these files are themeable? My understanding was that these
> XML files were read during startup/initialization and have to resolve
> the icon references. Will the icon properties be overriden by code?

My understanding is that you don't have to do anything. It just works

> Any application I could look at that uses both PyGTK and Glade?

Try meld. It's in GNOME SVN

Jaap