[openbox] Images in the menu

[Holly Bostick]

Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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.

OK, now I am not a programmer, and I don't know anything about this, so 
that may be the source of my confusion.

However.

I *have* icons. I have Gnome installed, I have kdelibs installed, the 
applications I use install icons for themselves.

So why would there be additional dependencies needed to enable Openbox 
menus to use the icons I already have? The idea being that if I already 
have the icons, and can use them in other WMs (and, as you say, in OB 
windows), don't I already have whatever dependencies would be needed to 
make them viewable in OB menus (if OB was able to recognize an icon= 
setting in the menu.xml)?

I'm not trying to be a bitch, I'm just asking, otherwise I'll never 
learn ;-) .


Holly