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On 18 Aug 2001, Angelo Mottola <a.mottola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >What do you mean by "shared by all ports" ? Would such a function be really
> >portable ? What of the n X window managers, the m Unix desktop
> >environments... ?
>
> I thought there was a way to set the window icon into Xlib... maybe I'm
> wrong.
Yes, it's possible. I tried it a few days ago.
> I see your points and that's fine to me. But if we provide the user with an
> utility to setup the icon of a program, what do you think it would have to
> look like? If that is the way to go, I'd try to make it as much os-
> indipendent as possible, i.e. some command line tool which would be called in
> a way like (for example):
>
> fixicon myprogram.exe myicon.bmp|pcx|tga|...
>
> And it would do all the dirty stuff to provide the OS-dependent executable to
> have an icon attached to it. Could this be doable, even with some evil hacks?
Well, it wouldn't do anything for Unix/X programs.
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