[desktop-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Icons in executables

[Alan Coopersmith]

Martin Rosenau wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I wondered if there is any extension that allows inserting icons into executable files so the icons of the executable files are displayed the file system explorer (Nautilus, Konquerer,...) like it is done in MS Wind*ws.
> Searching in some forums I found out that such a feature does not exist and that many users are missing this feature.
> 
> It would be very easy to define such a possibility (I already thaught about details) but developing such an extension makes only sense if the following conditions are given:
> 
> - Many programs are using this extension
> - KDE and Gnome support this extension
> 
> Do you think such an extension makes sense?

That sounds like a possible freedesktop.org standard, like the ones for
.desktop files, but not an X extension, since the file managers read the
filesystem directly, not via the X server.

         -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
          Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering