Re: FVWM: TitleIcons, mini-icons (fwd)

From: Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 11:13:18 +0200

>>>>> Brady Montz writes:

B> This was sent to me via email. I don't know if he meant the list to see
B> it, but it has a good idea.

B> Forwarded message:
> From: mccaffer_at_eee.bham.ac.uk (Graeme McCaffery)
> Subject: Re: FVWM: TitleIcons, mini-icons
> To: bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu (Brady Montz)
>
> I don't know what others think, but if it is necessary to have separate
> pixmap files for large and small version of the same icon then I think
> the way that icon directories could be restructured.
> For example instead of the pixmap path being where the icons are perhaps
> we could have the pixmap path pointing to a directory containing two
> other directories, say big and small.
[...]
> The important thing is that icon files have the same name but reside in
> different directories depending on whether they are large or small.
>

B> Here's my take on this. I've only thought about it for five minutes, but
B> it seems potentially cool. I admit that it seems potentially unmanagable
B> as well.

B> If we did go to having multiple icon paths, then we would not be limited to
B> just one or two kinds of icons. It wouldn't be hard to enable an arbitrary
B> number of icon paths (like PixmapPath1, PixmapPath2, etc) and then whenever
B> you ask for an icon, you could just specify which path you want it from. So,
B> "%xterm.xpm%" could just mean grab it from the first path, and "%xterm.xpm 2%"
B> could be the xterm.xpm in either PixmapPath2. I'm ignoring the
B> distinction between IconPath and PixmapPath for now.

[much complicated stuff deleted]

currently, we seem to have a movement towards a prefix for mini icons:
e.g: mini.move.xpm. That makes the pixmap directory rather crowded.

perhaps convert the mini. to a mini/

or: (I'd like this one most)
hierarchy below PixmapPath:
        PixmapPath/64x64/
        PixmapPath/32x32/
        PixmapPath/16x16/
and some sort of

IconDirectory 64x64
MiniIconDirectory 16x16

in .fvwm2rc, to choose, which icons to use where. (I prefer smaller icons
than others, even on a BIG screen)

albrecht
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