[openbox] Images in the menu

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Thu Oct 28 10:51:08 EDT 2004


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Holly Bostick wrote:

> OK, I understand what you're saying in general, but the implications go right 
> past me.
>
> So what I get from it is that, in order to display icons in the main menu, 
> one would have to
>
> 1) write a patch to add some loading code so the icon could be loaded from 
> the file (and then one could specify the icon in menu.xml, hopefully); or
>
> 2) compile lots and lots of icons into openbox.
>
> Are either of these remotely feasible options?

The second is obviously not, and the first would add more dependencies to 
at least one or two libs, most likely many more indirectly, so probably 
not that either.

> It would be nice to have icons 
> on the whole menu (or none, for that matter). Having them only on one section 
> is a bit bizarre.

Not really, the windows do have icons associated with them, but binaries 
don't.

> Holly
>

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Mikael Magnusson



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