Re: gnome-session: custom per-app icon

[Håvard Wigtil <havardw stud ntnu no>]

On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:30, Sergey V. Oudaltsov wrote:
> >      1. Try to find a desktop file that matches the binary name, the
> >         code from the run dialog can be used. The icon from the desktop
> >         file should be preferred to the window icon because the desktop
> >         icon presumably represents the base state, and some applications
> >         (e.g. Evolution and Mozilla) change window icon based on
> >         application state.
> Rather expensive thing - to lookup several directories, parse .desktop
> files. Not sure it is good for the session startup (which should be as
> fast as possible).

As Havoc said, you can add the icon as a property to the session when
the session is _saved_, so there is no need to search for the icon in
any way on startup, you just read back the property from the session.
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    Håvard

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