Re: GNOME CVS: gnome-core mmclouglin

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Carlos,

On 23 Nov 2001, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

> El vie, 23-11-2001 a las 09:58, Gnome CVS User escribió:
>
> I have a question... This way, could we load remote applets and get
> remote icons for this applet?
>
> I mean, I could have the Foo_Applet in a remote server and the panel in
> my local machine and the Foo_Applet is not installed here, so the icon
> is also at remote server. Should we add a method in our applet's bonobo
> methods to get its icon?

	I didn't realise it, but this was actually discussed before
and a solution was even designed[1], but not implemented ....

	Essentially, when configuring, take the icon, encode it in xml
and stuff it in the .server file. It would work, and its all very
exotic and stuff, but personally I think its rather crack laden :-)

	If this is going to make 2.0, someone will have to do it quick
smart, or else have to live with the poor man's way of looking for the
icon in the PIXMAP domain or using an absolute filename, if supplied.

Good Luck,
Mark.

[1] - http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-components-list/2001-March/msg00023.html