Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > Anthony Baxter wrote: > > There's an open PEP-356 issue for "update the icons to the newer > > shinier ones" for Unix. As far as I can see, there's the 14x15 GIF > > images used for Idle and the documentation. Note that for me at least, > > idle comes up without an icon _anyway_. > > A pyfav.(gif|png) replacement would be quite welcome! > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:25, Georg Brandl wrote: > > In case we add a Python .desktop file (as proposed in patch #1353344), > > we'll need some PNGs in /usr/share/icons. A patch for Makefile.pre.in > > is attached. > > I know the .desktop files have become fairly standard, but are these our > responsibility or does that rest with the distributions/integrators? (I'm > not objecting, but I'm not sure what the right thing really is since Python > is an interpreter, not a desktop application.)
I'm also not very sure, as I myself would never start python via a menu entry. But for newcomers, it could be as it is for Windows users: A menu entry that starts the interpreter in a terminal window, and maybe one for IDLE too. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com