Re: FVWM: Icon reliefs

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 19:01:21 +0200

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:25:54PM +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:19:04PM +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> > > Some time ago someone asked if it's possible to get icons with
> > > "boxes" around them.
> > > And someone answered that if you turn off shaped support when running
> > > ./configure this effect will be achived.
> > >
> > > But this prevents windows (like xeyes) from being transparent.
> > > So I edited icons.c, replaceing all "FShapesSupported" with "0" to achive
> > > this effect just on icons.
> > >
> > > This works quite well. Though some icons still dont have a relief around
> > > them. For example FvwmPager and TkDesk (client supplied).
> > >
> > > I thought maybe this doesn't affect client supplied icons, but ymessenger
> > > also has it's own icon, and it gets a relief.
> > >
> > > What's the reason for this?
> > > Is only transparant icons given this relief?
> >
> > Applications can specify icon pixmaps or icon windows. Fvwm
> > handles the transparency effect for pixmaps, but not for icon
> > windows.
>
> So this means that those specifying a icon window will not get a relief
> and those specifying a pixmap does get an icon relief (using my
> modification)?

Yup. I've tried to implement that feature a while ago, but got
confused with all the icon hints stuff we have now and gave up
for the moment.

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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