Re: Setting window icons

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman ireland sun com> writes: 
> I hope not.  For accessibility support for viewers who are
> visually impaired but not blind, this can be a very important way
> of providing better interfaces (bigger icons, higher contrast, etc.)
> 
> Admittedly I am new to the GTK+ icon support... themes can work
> for stock icons, but how about application icons?  It looks as though
> the icon list might be the best way to provide alternate icons
> (for localization, internationalization too - really, icons aren't
> 100% international ;-)
> 
> So I have been reading this thread and wondering if maybe 
> we are too hasty in throwing this feature out...
> 

An undifferentiated icon list doesn't seem to help much here - in
selecting which one to actually use, you could only base the decision
on icon size.

So making themes work for app icons is a better approach; you could
maybe say that the app icon can/must be a stock icon, which would then
make it themeable and internationalizable just as the stock icons are.

Havoc