From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 4:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8B614F7A for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:58:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA01206; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:05:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199904291205.WAA01206@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904291057.GAA20645@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Apr 29, 1999 6:57:46 am" To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:05:05 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas David Rivers wrote: > I point out that if the executable has no icon in it, then this > "overrides" from the window manager would come into play, right? > > Since the "overrides" have to be there anyway - what's the advantage > of putting the icon in the exe? Window managers wrap top-level windows of active processes. The icon in the exe is for browsing the file system prior to executing the process. These are two _very_ different things. -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message