Re: Icon theming for Balsa

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 12/19/2004 04:10:35 PM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 12/12/04 11:22:17, Craig Routledge wrote:
> > From source, the balsa-specific icons can be found in  
> > balsa/src/pixmaps.
>
> OK, thanks.  I was able to make replacement icons for all  
> listed therein, but when I start Balsa, they are not used in  
> the message lists (replied, forwarded, attachment, etc. icons),  
> nor in the menus.  I have them listed properly in my GTK  
> theme's iconrc, so this seems to be a problem in Balsa; it  
> should be pulling icons from the theme where it can.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?

Creating an icon theme for Balsa may be a little more involved  
than that.  If you look at one of Balsa's distributed xpm files,  
say src/pixmaps/info_lock_encr.xpm, you'll see that it defines a  
symbol initialized as a character string; in this case the symbol  
is info_encr_xpm.  If you check src/balsa-icons.c for that  
symbol, you'll see that it's associated with the  
BALSA_PIXMAP_INFO_ENCR stock item, and that stock item is defined  
in src/balsa-icons.h to be "balsa_info_encr".  If the icon theme  
system associates stock items with file names, the file  
containing a themed version of that icon may need to be named  
/path/to/theme/16x16/balsa_info_encr.xpm (or .png, if you convert  
it).

HTH!

Peter