icons.xpm

[Bernhard Herzog]

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> 
> > We want to add lots of icons to GPA. How is the file icons.xmp generated
> > or is it maintained by hand? Or, prased differently, should I just
> > append new xpms to icons.xpm?
> 
> It would be much better if we can replace that with PNG images.  It
> can't be that difficult. 

The existing icons were created from larger PNGs which in turn were
apparently created as vector graphics. We do have the PNGs, but not the
vector versions.

Directly loading the PNGs is not easily done. Compiling all icons as
xpms into gpa is much easier.

> If there is no way around, we should make
> a pixmap director and include the pixmaps as needed.  Or run a
> script to create a source of all xpms in a directory,

I agree that we should keep the original PNGs in CVS and have
scripts/Makefiles that generate the xpms.

> generate strings
> from the variable names and write a load function which is called
> with a string as argument.

The function is already there and the array xpms in icons.c, which
matches strings to xpm-variables looks as though it might have been
created with a script.

  Bernhard

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