Re: Custom icons per window class/name patch

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Earle,

Sorry to take this back to a discussion that you guys were having 
earlier... but I remember that someone wrote something along the lines 
of, "most window managers include their own set of icons for X apps 
since most X apps do not set an icon to be shown on the upper-left hand 
corner of the window".

When taken in the context of standard X window managers, that sounds 
plausible.  However, Exceed and XWin-32, if I recall correctly, seem to 
display upper-left hand corner icons for most X apps.  I sort of doubt 
that Exceed and XWin-32 come with a set of icons for common X apps, but 
I could be wrong.

Can anyone concretely prove to me that there is not a way to do app 
icons without having a icon config file and a set of icon files for 
common X apps?  I would really like to avoid the headaches of 
distributing icons and a new config file, if at all possible.

I am going to hold off on committing this patch until I am convinced 
that it is the best way to go.


Thanks for contributing,

Harold

Earle F. Philhower III wrote:

> Hi Ralf,
>
> I did some checking in between packing today and it was relatively simple
> to get the res_class and res_name of a window in the winCreateWin function,
> but the thing is you can't use any XLib calls:  you're the server itself at
> that point, and not a client!
>
> I've done a quick-n-easy icon specifier, namely a file called
> c:\windows\xwin.ini .  It's a standard old format text INI file with the
> [sections] being the class and identifiers=c:\file.ico being the keys.
> If a res_name isn't matched, it uses the _default key for the icon.  If
> the res_class isn't matched, the default X icon is used...
> Ex:
> [XLoad]
> _default=z:\tmp\xload.ico
>
> [Fig]
> _default=z:\tmp\xfig.ico
> file_popup=z:\tmp\file.ico
>
> Note you need Windoze paths since I call the API LoadImage() to get the ICO
> into a handle.  Use "xprop" to get the res_name and res_class of a window.
>
> There are 2 new small files, I created them in because they need special
> includes that the main files don't need or want.
>
> Feel free to use this as a base to add a nicer UI and maybe use XPMs and 
> other
> image formats instead of plain Windoze .icos...
>
>
> -Earle F. Philhower, III
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