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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:05:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding desktop support
Message-ID:  <199904291205.WAA01206@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199904291057.GAA20645@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Apr 29, 1999  6:57:46 am"

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Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>  I point out that if the executable has no icon in it, then this
>  "overrides" from the window manager would come into play, right?
> 
>  Since the "overrides" have to be there anyway - what's the advantage
>  of putting the icon in the exe?

Window managers wrap top-level windows of active processes. The icon
in the exe is for browsing the file system prior to executing the
process. These are two _very_ different things.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137


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