[Sugar-devel] rethinking your icon customization patch

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> About the cache, did you try
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkIconTheme.html#gtk-icon-theme-rescan-if-needed

Tried that. Sugar seems to cache its icons separately from GTK. There
used to be a cache file, but now I think it is all in memory. I need
to dig deeper.

-walter
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>
> On Wednesday, 19 June 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>> Here are some thoughts about the custom icon patch:
>>
>> (1) if we prepend ~/.sugar/icons to the theme icon path, then anything
>> in that path will be used (as long as we flush the cache) as per
>> dnarvaez's comment on the patch
>> (2) if we have a sugar activity for selecting svg files (from the
>> journal and some samples) and loading the selected file as
>> computer-xo.svg into ~/.sugar/icons then we are done.
>>
>> #1 is a two-line addition to jarabe/main.py
>>
>>     icons_path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.sugar', 'icons')
>>     Gtk.IconTheme.get_default().prepend_search_path(icons_path)
>>
>> #2 is similar to what you already did for the cpsection, only it is a
>> stand-alone activity similar to xo-colors
>>
>> We can use Turtle Art and other activities to generate SVGs. (The old
>> version of xo-colors let you edit the XO icon... with revisiting in
>> this context.)
>>
>> We need to figure out how to flush the icon cache.
>>
>> regards.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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> --
> Daniel Narvaez
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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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