[sugar] Stock items in Sugar

[Walter Bender]

the Sugar icons are all SVG, so they should be usable from any
programming environment directly.

-walter

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Torello Querci <torello at torosoft.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Il giorno ven, 14/11/2008 alle 22.52 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta ha
> scritto:
>> 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 ?
>>
> It is possibile to have this image stock usable from environment
> different from python? Ok python is the main language used to write
> activity (and sugar itself) but make this icon usable from other
> environment can help this activity writer to mantains the same look of
> python activity.
>
>>
>> >
>> >> 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)
>>
> If sugar define a lots of "official" icon in this way that can be used
> without the use of python I suppose that this is welcomed.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Torello
>
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