Re: GTK tool bar icons in Emacs

[Jan Djärv]

Nick Roberts skrev:
> I would like to use the GTK record/stop icons in Emacs.  In GTK Emacs, at
> times, the custom icons appear somehow to be replaced by GTK ones.  Could
> someone please explain how this works in basic terms.

Can you narrow down what you did when the icons where replaced?  Note that 
many major modes replaces the tool bar, maybe you stubled upon that?

If you need to replace some standard icons, customizing x-gtk-stock-map should 
to the trick (apart from bugs of course).

The tool bar is specified in the variable tool-bar-map.  This can be buffer 
local and as stated, major modes do change this.
or the Gtk+ case, the file names inside tool-bar-map get remapped by 
x-gtk-stock-map to a Gtk+ stock name, so that stock icons are used instead (to 
adjust for Gtk+ theme changes).

> Also GTK apps, e.g., FireFox often allow names to appear in text below the 
> icons.
> (View-> Toolbars-> Customize...).  Is it possible to do this in GTK Emacs?

The code is not hard to do, the problem is that for icons there doesn't exist 
any short name, only the help text is available.  The text used for the name 
is ofthen too long (for example, "Visit new file..."), and the tool bar 
becomes very wide.

        Jan D.