Re: [Tcllib-devel] FamFam icon sets as packages - Tklib candidate - Requesting Review

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> Another couple of thoughts on this ... plugin-like would be similar to  
> themes and how we can add themes to Ttk.

Hm ... Ttk allows switching themes on the fly, at runtime, right ? That could 
actually be handled ... The 'icon-theme' package would have to remember the 
images it handed out to the app, and the associated general icon names ... 
Switch the theme, go through the remembered images and reload their content ...

> On that note as well, it might be nice as an enhancement to devise a  
> "standard" set of icons that each "icon theme" would represent, though  
> they could have many more than the standard.  Similar to font and font  
> families (icon families ??), and our use of TkFontFixed, TkFont... but  
> for icons it would be "file", "dir", "open" ... maybe not an immediate  
> feature, but do consider our existing core facilities that have  
> similar ideas and apply them (Ttk themes, fonts, ...).

GSoC project ?!

We may not have time (remember I threw mine together right quick, minimal 
thought), however maybe we can interest someone ...

How are KDE, Gtk, Qt handling the icons ? Do they have a general framework with 
configurable icon search paths ? Or is that part of an app handled by the app 
itself still ?

Andreas.