Re: Icons of program

[raster redhat com]

On 19 Apr, Tony 'Merc' Mobily shouted:
->  Hi,
->  
->  I know I'll be killed by about 200 messages agains me, but...
->  I don't really like the idea of having my hard disk full of .info file for
->  every icon I define on my computer.
->  
->  Moreover, I wanted to be free to define icons even if I *don't* have rights
->  of writing on that directory (I would be the only one to see that
->  folder/file like that, for example).
->  
->  I think it's possible to implement in several different ways, to avoid 100
->  little .info files spread around...

easy. Do what ee does.

if you use the thumbnail viewer, check in ~/.ee/icons/
u'll proly find form that dir on it will build a miror of your filing
system - so if you have a thumbnail for a picture:
/usr/local/pix/sky.png

a thumbnail exists in:
~/.ee/icons/usr/local/pix/sky.png

ee will build this tree as it goes around creating thumbnails... all
transparently..:) it still makessense to have an icon format..a nd
place that file there. Thats the placement of the ".info" file.. that
can be done many ways. I still think we need a nice compact,
open-designed icon format to place somewhere than can hold user
preferences like for exectubles the parameters to run the program with,
or for data files the program to run to "open" that data file etc.

->  Don't you think?
->  
->  Merc.
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->  
->  

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