From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 16:31:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0464514CAF for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA23277; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:31:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA11927; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:31:43 -0600 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:31:43 -0600 Message-Id: <199904282331.RAA11927@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Abley Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <19990429112538.D81921@clear.co.nz> References: <199904282017.NAA01044@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990429083638.B34373.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@gurney.reilly.home> <199904282244.PAA28325@kithrup.com> <19990429112538.D81921@clear.co.nz> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Putting icons in the executable itself is pretty stupid -- it's a single > > instance of something that a window manager can use, and there are much > > less-invasive ways of doing the same thing. > > What's invasive about it? The fact that the user may not like the icon you've chosen to use due to many criteria, including size, # of colors, transparency, 2D/3D, etc... So, do we embed every icon the user may want to use inside the executable to meet everyone's needs, or do we find an alternative location such that the user can use any icon it finds appropriate. This also allows for such things as 'themes', whereby I can change the behavior of my system if the location of the icons are in a centralized place by replacing the contents with a similar layout with different icons. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message