Re: window icon patch

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 18:56, Darin Adler wrote:
> on 9/24/01 2:58 PM, jacob berkman at jacob ximian com wrote:
> 
> > this patch allows you to just have:
> > 
> > gnome_window_icon_set_default_from_file ("gnome-terminal.png");
> > 
> > is there a better way of getting pixmaps?
> 
> I think that ideally it's better to not hard-code the ".png" into the
> program. That way, someone can supply a pixmap in a different file format
> (presumably one supported by gdk-pixbuf) later.
> 
> So if we are going to pass short file names like this, with gnome-libs doing
> the searching for us, I think we should not include the extension part, and
> gnome-libs should handle that part of the searching too.

also - we can just init the icons from the program name passed to
gnome_program_init() - and we can have a default way of denoting sizes
(even use kde's method).



jacob
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