Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:36:53 -0500 From: "Chris M. Costello" <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <19990428093652.B12244@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:47:35PM %2B1000 References: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>
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--GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 28, 1999, John Birrell wrote: > I'm working on an application that is targeted at users who, based on > their exposure to a certain commercial OS, expect to be able to point > and clip their way through life, and to recognise things by little > pictures. There are a few things that I'd like to add to FreeBSD to > support this sort of application. The first is to build icon pixmaps > into each executable program. >=20 > Now that we've made the transition to ELF, adding an XPM formatted pixmap > to a program is simply a matter of: >=20 > objcopy --add-section=3D.icon=3Dfile.xpm file >=20 > I could just keep this in my local tree, but that would mean that I have > to build my own distribution and that 3rd-party vendor software won't > contain icons (like it would if built for Windows). I'm hoping that > there is sufficient interest to convince those people who will no doubt > be horrified by doing such a think to a UNIX operating system. (Some of > those people don't read this list, but that's another problem). I don't see why this can't be a port instead, if the '.icon' section is optional and can be added by a user process instead of the linker. > --=20 > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com= .au/ > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353= 137 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Logic is neither an art or a science but a dodge. --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNycdA7fyXY/Dmk2NAQFfUwMAoIRJncoBYLeE8A9d8amab1lEnEjzr3gu G9q4e9zeQXVpt5mThxyQ28gQz2d0oSfn7fqYdpHhW9/U5i6c5PFO4xT57ueuKww1 EfDkLtMqLNkfsNR1UTfEFA0zMMrryTOK =4JgQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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