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Re: Icons for windows...
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: Icons for windows...
- From: Larry Smith <larry at smith-house dot org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:42:23 -0500
- CC: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <200011150306.TAA02676@scv3.apple.com>
- Reply-To: lsmith at redhat dot com
Jim Ingham wrote:
> For now, I think that you have to use the "winico" extension. There is =
> some discussion on the Tcl Core mailing list about incorporating that =
> functionality into the wm command, and how to do this, etc... But for =
> now, if you want to get icons into the Windows start bar, you need to =
> use winico. BTW, I have never used it, so I don't know how good it is, =
> but it seems to get a lot of use in the community, and people seem =
> generally happy with it.
Urm...I think there is a miscommunication somewhere.
As I understand the bug report, most gdb windows are
not given any sort of icon to display when iconized,
even on Unix. Of course, different systems use the
icon differently, but I can't seem to define a full-
color icon (a gif is what I have to work with) as the
icon for a given window in a generic and portable
fashion. It's not just a windows issue.
I'm not familar with winico, but it doesn't sound
like something that would help me in Linux. Have
I missed something?
> > I have a bug report requesting that all windows have
> > appropriate icons added to them so they can be seen
> > as what they are when iconized.
> >=20
> > This turns out not to be so obvious to me. I've spent
> > the last day or so studying the wm command in all its
> > myriad permutations and I see no reasonable way to do
> > this. wm iconbitmap . <foo> requires a bitmap, and not
> > only do we not have any bitmaps of the likely icons at
> > handy (they are gif files in images/) but even if we did,
> > they would be limited to two colors, which seems rather
> > unsatisfactory.
> >=20
> > I took a look at creating a gif image on a canvas and
> > using wm iconwindow . <pathname>, but this only works
> > for wm's that actually bother to create an icon - wm's
> > like kwm like to scale the window icon for use in things
> > like the open window menu or the taskbar, and that seems
> > not to work well.
> >=20
> > Anyone have any ideas for a more satisfactory solution
> > to this? I'd hate to waste too much time on it (or to
> > spend much time creating bitmap icons) since it's not a
> > major feature, but I don't like to walk away from the
> > idea, it's a worthwhile idea.
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