On 20 Jun 2002 12:07:11 +0200, Riswick, J.G.A. van wrote:
>
> I was wondering if in fvwm-themes there is somewhere a
> function that in some magic way finds an icon for a given
> application, maybe through some kind of an icon-database
> or something. I'm working on an application launching
> panel, and one of the problems i face is to always find
> an icon for a given application. It is possible by using
> the gnome libraries, but I'd prefer not to...
Well, yes, there is an application-matching-pattern-to-icon database.
But it will not help you. There is a need in a wider application database
including name, resource strings and category. This should be enough to
assign an icon (using wm-icons categories), to automatically create
application menus and to implement application choosers for bindings and
panels like yours.
You may use GNOME or KDE *.desktop database for now, I think.
Or maybe even query FreshMeat online to get a category, I don't know.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 05:48:48 BST