application icons on other operating systems too

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Ralf Habacker schrieb:
> Thiago Macieira schrieb:
>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> on win32 application icon are embedded into the executable for which the
>>> new macro KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON() is aimed to.
>>> My question is if there are other platforms which have the need for such
>>> a macro. If no this macro would be renamed to KDE4_ADD_WIN32_APP_ICON()
>>> based on a  request from alex Neundorf.
>>>     
>>
>> MacOS X icons are special files inside the bundles as well. They are
>> not PNG files.
>>
>>   
> Which means that KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON()  would make sense as platform
> independent macro.
> 
> How is this done on MacOS x - on win32 the icons are in the win32 ico
> format. The macro KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON()  creates the special icon files
> and adds them to the source list of the related target. As source files
> png files and svg's may be possible.
> 
> The current macro implementation uses an external tool to convert png to
> ico (png2ico). Unfortunally the tool is not able to create big vista
> icons. Christian Ehrlicher has does some research in this direction and
> has brought up an initial implementation of such an converter. If i
> remember right he also had implemented some stuff to autodetect
> application icons in the source tree.
> svg as source files are unsupported yet but may be added if the svg to
> png converter located in kdebase would be available in kdelibs.
> 
I stopped this small project because currently png2ico + cmake script
was enough for this task. But the source is still available if needed.


Christian