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Re: Menu icons

 

In my Debian super classic (xfce) install icons seem to be there.

cheers

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Camille 019 <camille019@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:45:33 -0500
>> From: stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Menu icons
>>
>> On 2/22/2014 9:53 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> On 2/22/2014 8:40 AM, Miguel Angel wrote:
>>>> The context menus in kicad (Windows) are full of icons, but in osx and
>>>> Linux they have been always iconless for me :)
>>>
>>> You used to be able to override the default platform setting by setting
>>> -DUSE_IMAGES_IN_MENUS=ON. But someone added && defined( __WINDOWS__ )
>>> to the SET_BITMAP() macro so you can no longer override the platform
>>> default. I'm not sure when that happened. I wrote the original macro
>>> to allow folks to change it to their preference. Maybe there was some
>>> technical reason why it was changed to be a windows only setting.
>>
>> Minor correction. The current code is correct. Set
>> -DUSE_IMAGES_IN_MENUS=ON and rebuild KiCad. If you are using the GNOME3
>> desktop, open the tweakui settings tool and in the theme panel enable
>> the menu icons setting. This will enable the menu icons for all apps
>> that are still built with them. I just tested this on Debian testing
>> and it works. I don't know if there is a way to enable this on an app
>> by app basis. If you are using a different desktop (unity, kde, etc.),
>> you may have to figure out how to enable the menu icons.
>
> Gtk 3.10 doesn't support this option anymore.
>
> To restore icons for menu items and buttons for gtk2 (and wxWidgets) programs only, you can use dconf-editor to edit the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings.overrides settings and add "{'Gtk/MenuImages': <1>, 'Gtk/ButtonImages': <1>}".
> Works on Fedora 20.
>
> --
> Camille
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