Re: image-load-path / tool-bar icons / dumped Emacs with images.el

[David Reitter]

On 21 Oct 2005, at 08:30, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> Maybe we can avoid having another variable if we do:
>
> (defmacro at-startup (&rest body)
>   `(if (eq before-init-hook t)
>        (progn . ,body)
>      (setq before-init-hook
>        (nconc before-init-hook ',(copy-sequence body))))
>   nil)
>
> and set before-init-hook to t after it has been run.

OK, so the current solution initializes image-load-path correctly at  
run-time.
However, because it doesn't do so before (tool-bar-mode 1) is called  
(startup.el, line 765) for the first time, tool-bar-setup cannot load  
any images from their locations, so the tool-bar remains empty.

That is, only when you preload image.el into the dump. If you don't -  
as in the default compile - then image.el gets autoloaded at runtime  
and the image-load-path is set early enough for tool-bar-setup to  
find the images.

Maybe it would help to move (run-hooks 'before-init-hook) up before  
(frame-initialize) ?