Re: FEATURE: Icon Resource in application binaries

[Ionut Cotoi <cotty cotty iren ro>]

Hey, we don't want to make things THAT UNIVERSAL... nobody said that....
We can put away the part with the scripts (even though it is not that hard), there is no such thing on any other platform either (not that we shouldn't come up with something original from time to time), but embedding something at link-time in to the elf header that can be afterwords read by a file manager, it's not hard.
I think that we should focus on what would be cleaner to implement for the elf executable format, and Linux in particular.

Regards,
Ionut Cotoi
Junior Developer
BayStack Project
ITC Networks


On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 23:34, Blad, John Erling wrote:
> An executable binary file containing data to be read by some other file
> manager/window manager program?
> Assuming some kind of automagical inverse lookup from scripts to get the
> correct icon?
> And this should work for multiple os and architectures at the same time?
> Are you serious?
>
> John