[haiku-development] Re: Haiku icons in BeOS?

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:30:24 +0200

Fredrik Ekdahl wrote (2007-06-03, 20:27:04 [+0200]):
> On Sunday 03 June 2007 20.19.56 Jonas Sundström wrote:
> > Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >  ...
> >
> > > It would be even easier to remove the #ifdefs in the
> > > resource files. But I was under the impression, that we
> > > wanted to avoid having the copyrighted BeOS R5 icons
> > > in our image.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind seeing Be's icons removed, for legal reasons.
> >
> > I only meant to say that Haiku's own vector icons could also
> > be added to the files as R5 attributes, so the Haiku partition
> > doesn't look so anonymous when mounted from BeOS, but
> > this should clearly be optional, if anyone even thinks its worthwhile.
> >
> > /Jonas.
> 
> I guess it would be simpler for you to build a custom Tracker which also 
> looks for Haiku icons. Probably mostly a couple of ifdefs to remove, or?
> I might be wrong :)

Actually, I already did that :-). But it is ugly. Both visually (the mix of 
old and new) and from the code (hack to access mime database directly).

Best regards,
-Stephan


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