Re: [rox-users] Icons for apps

[Diego Z. <za...@ce...>]

pe...@he... said:
> So, my question is, how to I put a Netscape item on my pinboard that
> actually has the netscape.xpm icon?

There are actually two ways you can go about this:

- If you just want to point to the real executable (say, 
/usr/local/bin/netscape), then you can locate that file in a filer window, 
right-click on it, and in the "File 'xxx'" submenu select "Set Icon". Then you 
can either type the path of the icon you want, or drag the icon to the dragbox 
in the dialog. Now, whatever you do with the file (link to it, drag it to the 
pinboard or panel, etc.) will show the appropriate icon.

- ROX-Filer uses what is called "application directories", a directory that 
contains a program (called AppRun) and its icon (on a file called AppIcon.png 
or AppIcon.xpm). The idea of application directories is that all the files 
corresponding to an application are inside that directory, so that you can 
move it around, copy, transfer it without fear of having things scattered all 
over the place. For now, however, the main use of application directories is 
to act as wrappers around regular applications. So you can created a directory 
called Netscape, inside it put a shell script called AppRun that runs 
netscape, and a file called AppIcon.png (AppIcon.xpm also works) with the icon 
you want. Now, ROX-Filer will allos you to run that directory as if it were a 
program, and will show the appropriate icon.

As you probably suspected already, someone has done this already. If you go to 
the "Wrappers" section in ROX's web page (http://rox.sourceforge.net/), you 
can download a good set of wrappers (including one for Netscape) to get you 
started. You can also find some other wrappers at my ROX webpage 
(http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/zamboni/rox/).

Hope this helps,
--Diego