Re: Need Info on Gnome Panel Theme Bug 89063

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey Havoc,

On 12 Aug 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>
> Rajkumar Sivasamy <rajkumar siva wipro com> writes:
> > The existing Panel menu icons are not themable and the proposed solution
> > for this is to use GtkIconFactory to render the panel icons.
>
> For the add/remove etc. icons GtkIconFactory is right, for icons that
> originate from .desktop files the icon theme spec should be used (and
> I think already is, at least on HEAD?)

	Yeah, Alex did the work on the icon theme spec quite a while
ago now. Its on the stable branch as well. I've just realised use it
for the icons in the applet menu ... I'll do that later.

> > a)How do we theme the icons associated with `.desktop files' in a rc
> > file ?
>
> You should use the icon theme spec and implementation that Alex has
> put in gnome-desktop.
>
> > c)The panel uses GnomeIconLoader to search for icons. This implements
> > the 'Icon Theme Specification' from www.freedesktop.org. Does it not
> > make more sense to replace the icon selected at runtime using icon
> > themes ?
>
> Yes.

	These were both pretty much intended to be rhetorical
questions ... until they got copied and pasted to several mailing
lists :-) Quite bizarre.

Good Luck,
Mark.