[sugar] Stock items in Sugar

[Torello Querci]

Hi Walter,

Il giorno sab, 15/11/2008 alle 13.48 -0500, Walter Bender ha scritto:
> the Sugar icons are all SVG, so they should be usable from any
> programming environment directly.
> 

you are right, but to have a standard sugar stock icon make easier to
use it and moreover the sugar guys are free to change where to store it.


Best Regards	
Torello

> -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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