Re: Icons for windows...

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

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Larry,

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.

Jim

On Tuesday, November 14, 2000, at 12:12 PM, =
insight-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:

> From: Larry Smith <larry@smith-house.org>
> Date: Mon Nov 13, 2000  12:55:21 PM US/Pacific
> To: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Icons for windows...
> Reply-To: lsmith@redhat.com
>=20
>=20
> 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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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
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