Re: bitmap in button doesn't appear in 64bit 9.10

[Garth's KidStuff <garthskidstuff gmail com>]

okay. I want to do things the right way. It's hard sometimes because  
the documentation is a little light. *grin*

I guess I'll look into how to construct the button manually.

Garth Upshaw

On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:20 PM, David NeÄas <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:14:28AM -0800, Garth's KidStuff wrote:
> > Thanks.  After some digging, I managed to find out how to set the  
> > settings:
> >
> >    // Set button/menu images on by default -- 9.10 turned them off
> >    GtkSettings *settings = gtk_settings_get_default ();
> >    gtk_settings_set_long_property (settings, "gtk-button-images", 1,
> > ".gtkrc:0"); // I don't understand the significance of the origin  
> > param.  I
> > just saw this on some thread and tried it -- it works...
> >    gtk_settings_set_long_property (settings, "gtk-menu-images", 1,
> > ".gtkrc:0");
>
> You can set images on menu items where they are really, really  
> necessary
> by setting the "always-show-image" property.
>
> If you have buttons that make no sense without the image, you have
> always the option of constructing their content manually instead of
> using the "image" property.
>
> I did both in a few cases in my programs, namely in special menus and
> where the image carried the primary information and the text only
> auxiliary.
>
> By changing the settings in *code* you behave a thousand times worse
> than Ubuntu did.  The GtkSettings distro defaults can be probably
> changed in some user preferences; and in the worst case by gconf- 
> editor
> or
>
> gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/ 
> menus_have_icons true
>
> or similar means.
>
> How will anyone using your app disable the icons in menus?
>
> Yeti