X/Cygwin icon proposal

[Harold L Hunt II]

Earle F. Philhower III wrote:

> Hi folks, I'm really impressed with all the work you folks are doing!

Yes, some neat things are happening.  A little birdy told me that OpenGL 
acceleration is almost there...

> At 04:33 PM 3/11/2004 -0500, Harold wrote:
> 
>> Nahor wrote:
>>
>>> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>>
>>>> It was (is) in CVS and I really like it. Even much better than the 
>>>> new one.
>>>
>>> Maybe one can add yet-another-option on the commandline and have 
>>> several icons in the exe (or on a special library or whatever). It 
>>> won't solve the problem of the default exe icon but it will solve any 
>>> the taskbar/systray/shortcuts issue.
>>
>> Well, I don't know about a command-line option (sounds like a 
>> reasonable idea), but I was at least going to preserve the white 
>> bordered icon as the second icon in the file.  That way people could 
>> use it for shortcuts and such.  Also, I think Earle's .XWinrc file may 
>> allow you to specify an alternate icon for the tray and the default 
>> icon for each window, so we may not need a command-line option.  
>> Anyone want to look into this to confirm or debunk it?
> 
> 
> It's not there today, but if people are really interested I can throw 
> together
> a patch to the parser lexx/yacc to add a "TrayIcon xxxx" line and add
> the usual support for "iconfile.dll,n" where n=icon ID (ie. "shell32.dll,5"
> gives the floppy drive icon).  A default icon can be specified for X apps,
> but again it's only for .ico files and can't index into, say, XWin.exe...

Yes, that sounds good.  Let me just double-check that the TrayIcon 
feature *would* allow you to select the second icon within XWin.exe, 
right?  That is okay that the icon for other applications could not 
index into XWin.exe, as long as XWin.exe can specify icons within itself.

Thanks in advance,

Harold