question about multiwindow mode and application icons

[Harold L Hunt II]

Ralf,

Did you see the patch from Earl yesterday?  It does nearly the same 
thing, except it uses a .ini file to relate the WM_CLASS to a .ico file.

Harold

Ralf Habacker wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've added a patch for an initial implementation of application icons support
> based on the Testserver85 release (will probably work with the TestServer86
> release)
> 
> How does it work:
> 
> The patch provides application depending icon loading in each xserver created
> window. The decision, which icons is used, is based on the client application
> name eg. for the application "xterm" an icon "xterm.ico" is searched in all
> pathes found in the PATH environment variable.
> 
> How is this patch implemented:
> 
> Windows icon displaying is provided by Window classes through the
> RegisterClass() call. Each window which belongs to a specific window class, will
> be shown with the same icon. (Creating uniq Window Classes for any client
> application with corresponding application icon was the basic idea to use for
> icon displaying. Unfortunally I hadn't success requesting the WM_CLASS property
> in winCreateWindowsWindow(), the xserver hangs in the select of xReplay(), which
> I couldn't find.)
> 
> The current implementation creates for each window a uniq window classes and
> sets the icon in the WM_MAP event, which works at now.
> 
> Notes: There may be some issues, which could be improved, so I've called this
> patch as an initial patch. While working on this patch I recognized already
> some, which I was unable to fix at now, sorry.
> 
> Any comments ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ralf
> 
> 
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