[g-a-devel]Re: Need Info on Gnome Panel Theme Bug 89063

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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?)
 
> 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.

Havoc