Re: [Gaim-cabal] Artists

[Etan R. <de...@ed...>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Tim Ringenbach wrote:
> Etan Reisner wrote:
>> We should currently be able to theme many of the gaim icons, seeing as how 
>> we use stock items for them. If we worked on stockifying the rest of the 
>> icons (assuming that is possible and/or useful) we could get the rest of 
>> them themable the same way. Note: I have no idea how simple/easy it is to 
>> do this, in my short attempts this evening I was unable to come up with 
>> anything, gtk always yelled about not being able to find my icons in the 
>> pixmap search path, which I couldn't discover the identity of or find ways 
>> to add to, but I'm sure that can be worked around if someone knows how.
>
> While I'm not as familiar with the stock system as I could be, I have the 
> general feeling that implementing our own system would be 
> better/more-appropriate for this.
>
> --Tim

What makes you say that? A not insignificant amount of work has been 
done recently towards letting gaim not need custom options for settings 
when we can let gtk+ do it for us (namely in all the keybinding stuff 
for menus/toolbars/imhtml formatting), so I'm not sure why we wouldn't 
want to do that here.

I realize that gtk theming is complicated, but if we were able to 
determine how this should work, we could easily ship a couple 
(well documented) examples which should be more than enough for most 
people to follow.


But again, I don't know very much about the stock system so this could 
easily be an abuse of it.

 	-Etan