From kde-core-devel  Sat Apr 28 21:23:23 2001
From: Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 21:23:23 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: New Kasbar features and screen shots
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On Saturday 28 April 2001 7:36 pm, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Samstag, 28. April 2001 16:55 Richard Moore wrote:
> > change the icon dynamically etc. It asks for 48x48 icons,
> > but none of the applications are currently publishing a 48x48
> > icon in their hints. I suspect this needs fixing in KApplication.
>
> with KWin::setIcons(), you can only specify two icons at the moment, a
> mini-icon and another icon. So you have to decide which size to use.
> Looking at netwm.h, you can set as many icons as you want, in any size you
> want. When asking for an icon, you specify the size you want and you get
> the closest size available. So KWin might get fixed to allow specifying
> three icons, small, medium and large. Might be a little overhead tho.

Yeah, I checked the NET spec and the WM properties on the windows but I 
didn't check if the API actually let you use the stuff. I don't see that 
there's much that can be done about the overhead, without adding some sort of 
'prefered icon size' hint to the root window or something.

Rich.

>
> Cheers,
> Carsten Pfeiffer