Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:23:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> To: tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Valentino Crimi) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <199904291323.NAA06412@excalibur.oceanis.net> In-Reply-To: <wr_5FWm00Uw809xqQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> from Thomas Valentino Crimi at "Apr 29, 1999 8:45:22 am"
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As the well known Thomas Valentino Crimi said...
->
-> One alternative I'd like to propose is an icons.db file, laid out for
->optimum keysearch, with the .ICON elf section possibly containing a
->unique identifier for the binary. The .db file could contain multiple
->versions of each icon, in all the popular styles, and the user could
->have his/her own .icons.db file which is searched prior to the system
->list. Next comes /usr/local/share/icons.db where the administrator
->could install 'icon packages' to override system-default binaries as
->well as icons for the ports. Now, from here we would need to add in some
->pkg_add, pkg_delete like utilties icon_add, icon_delete which access
->this db.. the syntax could look like
->
-> icon_add <binary name> [stylename:iconfile]...
->
->where icon_add could extract the unique identifier from the binary, and
->then add in the iconfile. The user can then always retrieve icons of
->any style type from the db, and everyone can have the interface they
->want.
->
->I volunteer to send patches if people want this :)
I think this idea is far more better than putting ressources
into the executable. Those magic could be generated by md5 or
something else. In addition to icons, we could have a
generic way to handle any kind of ressources (dtd for usage
and so on).
It just need a decent interface, a way to avoid duplication
of ressources, and we have it.
->
-><just kidding> icond? anyone? </just kiodding>
->
->Thomas
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