[Tango-artists] Tango in Wine

[Simon Otter]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:02:43 +0200, Rodney Dawes <dobey.pwns at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:39 +0100, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
>> > I would recommend having wine follow the Icon Theme Specification, and
>> > load the icons from the system theme this way, to integrate with the
>> > rest of the system.
>>
>> The problem is that these icons have to be baked into the dlls at
>> compile time as windows resources - that is the way Windows does icons,
>> so wine has to as well, otherwise it'll cause incompatibilities.
>
> Not exactly. It means that a request for those resources in those dlls
> needs to return an icon. It doesn't necessarily mean that the resource
> must actually be compiled in to the dll.
>

Windows resources are baked into executables and DLLs. The resources isn't  
resolved by specific program calls (necessarily.) If this is what Joel  
refers to
his way might be the only way to do it.

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