[openbeos] Re: Haiku Icon set ...

Hi Staphan,


On 2007-04-09 at 01:13:30 [+0000], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Begasus,
> 
> as you can see, my catching up on past subjects in the mailing lists is 
> quite
> slow... sorry about that.

Better late then never ;)

> If you are working with mimetypes, you can also chose the
> "META:Icon Attribute" and save directly to an existing mimetype file (in 
> your
> mime type database, if you know what you are doing).

This is one thing I'm very interested in, I've been working and using the 
ZETA mimetype file (basemimes) as a base to create the IconTheme, 
understanding how this is done in Haiku would be very interesting. In ZETA 
the bin 'IconTool' and setmime can be used to add the icons to a 
mimetype/file, with loadicon from michael's TrackerNewFS you can do this 
also. In that way one could make a script to set the mime types all in once 
and restart the Tracker and (if needed) the Deskbar.

I've been looking for a file used like in ZETA (basemimes) but appareantly 
there isn't one used in Haiku to set the mime types like those ... so any 
info on that matter would be nice too. 

> 1 - launch Icon-O-Matic
> 2 - drag your SVG file into the window
> 3 - go to File->Export
> 4 - pick the export format "BEOS:ICON Attribute"
> 5 - chose the file to which you want to attach the icon in the file panel
> 6 - ignore the warning that it would overwrite the file, it only overwrites
> the icon if there was one before
> 

See above .... working/changing the IconTheme for a whole system would be 
easier if done in one script then seperate for all the mimeypes (deppendign 
on how large you want to set a IconTheme - a base one coule be done with 
about 15 icons)(could be easier also to share themes that way so others could 
use them aswell).

> Best regards,
> -Stephan

Thanks for the reply. ;)

Greets,

Luc aka Begasus

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