[Gambas-user] using icons from system theme without specifiying full path

[joshiggins]

Found the answer: Image.Load("pathtoimage").Stretch(24, 24, TRUE).Picture

joshiggins wrote:
> 
> Okay, I've got a bash script which you hand a .desktop file and it
> searches
> and returns the path of the icon (i'll post if anyone else is interested).
> 
> but... not all the icons are the same size. Is there a way (without
> manually
> resizing them) to have a consistent icon size in a ListView?
> 
> 2008/12/2 Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
> 
>> On dimanche 30 novembre 2008, Joshua Higgins wrote:
>> > well.... I'm making an application launcher. It reads all the .desktop
>> > files from under /usr/share/applications and after loads of splitting
>> adds
>> > them to a ListView.
>> >
>> > .desktop file layed out as follows:
>> >
>> > [Desktop Entry]
>> > Type=Application
>> > Name=Inkscape
>> > Comment=Vector Graphics Editor
>> > Exec=inkscape
>> > Icon=inkscape.png
>> > Categories=GNOME;Utility;
>> >
>> > The problem I'm having is that the icons are described as they are in
>> the
>> > theme, i.e. just the file name, not by the path, and I'm struggling to
>> find
>> > a reliable way to resolve this back to the path to the icon, which I
>> can
>> > then load into Gambas.
>> >
>>
>> Gambas internally uses its own algorithm to get desktop icons from theme,
>> because it needs to get the current icon theme first, which depends on
>> the
>> current desktop being used. Then it use a desktop-dependent method to get
>> the
>> path of the icon theme.
>>
>> But the real algorithm you must follow is described by a freedesktop
>> standard
>> at:
>>
>>
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Benoit Minisini
>>
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