Re: Icewm hacks for GNOME

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek snet fri uni-lj si>]

Felix Bellaby wrote:
> 
> raster@redhat.com writes:
>  > ->  In the longer term, the gnome-libs should support an X protocol to
>  > ->  tell the window manager which icons an application needs (so that
>  > ->  remote window managers work correctly). This protocol could simply
>  > ->  copy the information in the .desktop files over the X protocol to the
>  >
>  > that would be highly bad. as in the kind of bad that a nuclear warhead
>  > dropping on a large city would be. that would be bad. :)

I agree with raster.

> 3) The app and wm have to go through quite a complex process of
>    exchanging properties over the Xserver simply in order to
>    communicate one piece of information: which image is menemonic
>    for this app?

The KDE protocol and WIN_ICONS protocol are very simple. The
application loads the pixmaps and sets a property on it's windows
(if a window does not have this property, the WM should
use the icon of windows owner (for transient windows) or group leader
(this is TODO for icewm).
 
> 4) The protocol says absolutely nothing about how the user or
>    the rest of GNOME is involved in the process.

The icons should be specified by file type, application (them) depending
on what the icon reprezents.

>   The panel menu editor is extended slightly so that it is capable of
>   editing more than one pixmap for each panel entry.

Perhaps there should be a file naming convention for icons that 
could automatically be used when loading the icons. Or the file format
that contains more than one icon (like .ICO).

Mark
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