[sugar] Stock items in Sugar

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> To properly support BIDI, and to make things easier for activity
>> developers in the long run, I think it may be a good idea to support
>> stock items in Sugar. We should ideally support the standard GTK
>> stock-items as well as a few Sugar specific ones in
>> sugar.graphics.icon.Icon and sugar.graphics.icon.CanvasIcon to begin
>> with. Are there any other specific widgets which should support this ?
>>
>> Once pixbuf support is in Icon and CanvasIcon, it looks like
>> gtk.widget.render_icon() would help us implement the rest of the
>> puzzle (I have some proof of concept code in my system, which seems to
>> work). Does this sound like the right way, or is there anything better
>> ?
>
> Any reason to not use gtk.Image directly? Does our own icon subclass
> buy us anything here?

But in that case, how do we set support for stock in our Icon implementations ?


>
>> Also, what would be the best way forward to register new stock-icons
>> as Sugar starts up ? GTK seems to do it via GtkIconFactory and
>> friends. If we do that, what would be the entry point for us to
>> register the stock-items ?
>
> Are you thinking about activities or sugar?
>


Sugar (we use quite a few of our own icons in the core sugar UI itself
(eg: control panel, journal, etc)

Thanks,
Sayamindu



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