Re: icon sizes

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >
> > Bleah.  I would prefer to add another snippet to the GNOME window
> > manager hints document.  You would pass the window manager an RGBA
> > image which it could scale to whatever size it wants.  The window
> > manager would be then responsible for scaling, color reducing, and
> > dithering the image.
> >
> 
> Granted, no one really wants to supply a bitmap icon anyway, but it is a
> gap in the Gdk API.
> 
> For Gnome, I think it's better to just set a GdkWindow as the icon; the
> only problem is that I can't figure out how to capture events on the
> window, since the window isn't a widget. Well, I can think of a hack or
> two but not a nice way.

This is mostly useless for icewm because it only allows one place to put
the icon 
(via reparenting).

There doesn't seem to be a way to query the window background pixmap?
(Or am I blind?)

Mark
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