From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Smith To: Jim Ingham Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Icons for windows... Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 19:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A12061F.3694B349@smith-house.org> References: <200011150306.TAA02676@scv3.apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00224.html Jim Ingham wrote: > 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. Urm...I think there is a miscommunication somewhere. As I understand the bug report, most gdb windows are not given any sort of icon to display when iconized, even on Unix. Of course, different systems use the icon differently, but I can't seem to define a full- color icon (a gif is what I have to work with) as the icon for a given window in a generic and portable fashion. It's not just a windows issue. I'm not familar with winico, but it doesn't sound like something that would help me in Linux. Have I missed something? > > 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 . 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 . , 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. -- .-. .-. .---. .---. .-..-. | "Bill Gates is just a monocle | |__ / | \| |-< | |-< > / | and a Persian Cat away from `----'`-^-'`-'`-'`-'`-' `-' | being one of the bad guys in a My opinions only. | James Bond movie." -- D Miller