Re: GNUstep Icons and look proposal

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 19 août 04, à 10:37, Fred Kiefer a écrit :

> Nicolas Roard wrote:
> > Actually, yes, it won't be very hard to provide "icon themes". In 
> > fact, if you want it, just take Camaelon, remove most of the stuff 
> > and just keep the Image.m -- it will replaces all icons on the fly if 
> > the theme contains them. So technically, it's not a problem at all. 
> > Perhaps I should effectively provide a small "IconTheme" bundle if 
> > people want to package existing icons theme ? I probably won't do it 
> > myself (package thoses icons) but if someone want to do it, drop me a 
> > mail.
>
> Icon themes are even easier to achive in GNUstep. There is a file 
> nsmapping.strings in GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Images/, where image 
> names get mapped to real file names. If you just want to replace 
> images this is the place to do it. Of course this results in system 
> wide replacement. Not sure if there is a similar user specific way to 
> do it.

I don't think so...

anyway the system I described works without problem, and I think it's 
easier for an user to just load a new gui bundle, than editing a file, 
no ?

By the way, any comments about the icons guidelines, etc., ?

thanks,

--
Nicolas Roard
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