Re: Theming icons : questions

[Bertrand Dekoninck]

Le 21/12/2015 00:46, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> Hi,

> AppIcons are themable with the method you discovered from Tango. It was
> implemented during Dublin by Richard and Tango is the first usage. I
> envision a whole icon package, so the feel of several apps can be made
> consistent together. I see that I am not the only one feeling like this.

Yes I am :-) Thanks for the time you did spend on answering me.

> To be able to fully use the Tango theme, you need both current SVN for
> gui and GWorkspace, since I fixed the code to make certain icons
> themable. But I haven't worked on all of them.
>
> > - How should I name these icons ? I've tried for now to reproduce the
> > naming used in the Tango theme : I've created an
> > "org.gnustep.GWorkspace/Recycler" folder in my tree and I've put the
> > Recycler Icon in it. Should I create as well an
> > "org.gnustep.FSNode.HardDisk" folder with the HardDisk.tiff icon inside ?
>
> If I remember correctly, the disk icon of GWorkspace comes from the
> common system images. We only have one icon, there is not distinction
> between hard disk, usb keys and optical disks. It would be eye candy,
> but I don't know how to do that right now in a cross-platform way..
> Perhaps CDs could be recognized by getting information about the
> filesystem.
> >
Maybe there is some confusion here. What I'm talking is the icon for 
mounted drives. There isn't any "HardDrive.tiff" in ..../GNUstep/Images 
where common system images are. There is one in FSNode.framework which 
is used by GWorkspace.

I've tried to theme this icon using the prefix org.gnustep.FSNode. It 
fails.  My question was : is "org.gnustep.FSNode" the right name for the 
folder where the icon would live in the theme ?

I don't understand how you decided to name these folders in Tango, for 
instance  "org.gap.Terminal" or "org.gnustep.GWorkspace.Recycler"...

I've forked rik.theme on github (sorry ;-) ). See 
https://github.com/BertrandDekoninck/rik.theme.

In it, I can theme SystemPreferences as you did in Tango.theme. I have 
themed GWorkspace app icon too. But I fail to theme the Terminal icon 
(as it fails in Tango.theme).


> > - Shouldn't the HardDisk icon be a system-wide icon available in GUI
> > (as Recycler.tiff) ?
>
> I think to remember there is. I checked if Apple has a specific name for
> it, but couldn't find one, so it is not an official apple named image.
>
> > - Is it now possible to theme the icons of mimetypes (a custom pdf
> > icon used by GSPDF.app...) ?
>
> More than mimetypes, it should be document types for each application. I
> haven't investigated yet.
> As I haven't investigated (but fear it won't work) for Images in Gorm
> files.
> Again, the best would be for Gorms to use the Resources and not image
> shipped inside gorm files. I already requested this in Gorm and it is
> only roughly implemented.

Moreother, there doesn't seem to be a unique place to store the document 
icons usable by all GS-apps. I've seen this when creating some 
app_wrappers. Some GS-apps use mimetype suffixes in their plists, other 
apps use NS types... It does look like a real mess.


Bertrand


> Riccardo