[Glade-users] Pixmaps read from /<package-name>

[matt mcparland]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Damon Chaplin wrote:

> You want to be able to run the app without installing it?

Basically, yes.

> I think that works for GTK+ apps. But I couldn't do this for GNOME,
> since it uses internal functions to find certain pixmaps.

It does work for GTK+ apps and I haven't tried any with GNOME functions
that load pixmaps.

> You may be able to hack around this by setting GNOMEDIR to something
> like ~/gnome, then creating a ~/gnome/share/pixmaps directory, and adding
> a link in there to your project's pixmaps directory,
> e.g. ~/gnome/share/pixmaps/project1 -> ~/Projects/project1/pixmaps

Perfect, it works for me too.  Thanks.

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Matt McParland					matt@engsoc.org