[Python-Dev] Minor: Unix icons for 2.5? (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Tue Jul 11 19:42:53 CEST 2006

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

Anthony Baxter wrote: > There's an open PEP-356 issue for "update the icons to the newer > shinier ones" for Unix. As far as I can see, there's the 14x15 GIF > images used for Idle and the documentation. Note that for me at least, > idle comes up without an icon anyway.

A pyfav.(gif|png) replacement would be quite welcome! On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:25, Georg Brandl wrote: > In case we add a Python .desktop file (as proposed in patch #1353344), > we'll need some PNGs in /usr/share/icons. A patch for Makefile.pre.in > is attached. I know the .desktop files have become fairly standard, but are these our responsibility or does that rest with the distributions/integrators? (I'm not objecting, but I'm not sure what the right thing really is since Python is an interpreter, not a desktop application.)

I'm also not very sure, as I myself would never start python via a menu entry. But for newcomers, it could be as it is for Windows users: A menu entry that starts the interpreter in a terminal window, and maybe one for IDLE too.

Georg

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