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

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

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. Note that it has to remember which icons it has handed out, you do not 
wish to
	$img configure -file ...

for an icon the application has not used (yet).

>> GSoC project ?!
> 
> Good idea.


Andreas.