Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:20:20 +1200 From: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <19990428222020.A70537@clear.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:47:35PM %2B1000 References: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:47:35PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > > [idea to imbed relevant .xpm icon data in ELF executables] > Every response so far has been pretty negative, so I thought I'd break the running theme and say, for what it's worth, I like the idea. If there is going to be icon data associated with an executable, I can think of no better place for it. Presumably, for this to be useful, some guidelines ought to be well known regarding the dimensions of the icon, and the colour depth available? Maybe (for those application authors with severe artistic ability) there could be a number of optional images present, e.g. one mono image, one 16-colour image, one 256-colour image, one 65536-colour image, etc... An application such as a file manager could then select an icon for display which is appropriate to the number of available colours. In fact, running amok with this idea, perhaps an xml section describing the command-line parameters of the executable with a known (minimal) DTD would be useful for applications for which an ability to pre-parse command-line syntaxes would be useful (like file managers, once again). This all sounds very non-unixy. But I don't really know why. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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