Re: stock icon themes

[Robert Brady <robert susu org uk>]

On 26 Jul 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> In the simplest case, you use the same icon for all text directions,
> all icon sizes, and all states. In this case, GTK+ is going to scale
> the icon to various standard sizes, and also do some simple
> fading/brightening to make it look insensitive or prelighted. The icon
> will be the same in left-to-right and right-to-left languages.

It might be good have fully locale-dependent icons also. For example, the
"sort" button in gnumeric has "A...Z" written on it. For Greek, this
really ought to look like "A...[Omega]". Similarly with things like the
usual Bold/Italic/Underline glyphs.

-- 
Robert