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

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 10-Feb-09, at 3:35 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:
> 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 ...

Note that Tk handles this already through named images.  You just  
change it with [$img configure -file ...] and Tk does the updating for  
all widgets using -image $img.

>> 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 ?!

Good idea.

Jeff