gtkdialog window/tree icon questions

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The following three examples illustrate several problems I'm having with gtkdialog icons in the window widget on Fatdog64 701:
1. Why is icon gtk-yes shown properly in the title bar but icon gtk-open isn't? Many other stock icons aren't shown in the same way...
2. Is it possible to show a window icon by specifying its full path?
The same issues and questions extend to the tree widget using <tree icon-name="..."> for a column default icon or <item icon-name="..."> for an item icon.
Finally, googlecode gtkdialog doc says that a stock icon should be specified with stock-id="gtk-yes" rather than icon-name="gtk-yes" as in my first example below, but stock-id produces no icon here (Fatdog64).

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# echo '<window icon-name="gtk-yes"><hbox><button ok></button></hbox></window>' | gtkdialog -c -s
EXIT="OK"
# echo '<window icon-name="gtk-open"><hbox><button ok></button></hbox></window>' | gtkdialog -c -s
EXIT="OK"
# echo '<window icon-name="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/geany.png"><hbox><button ok></button></hbox></window>' | gtkdialog -c -s
EXIT="OK"

The first example above displays a green dot icon; the other two examples display a generic (broken/missing) icon.

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1. Why is icon gtk-yes shown properly in the title bar but icon gtk-close isn't? Many other stock icons aren't shown in the same way...

There's something wrong with GTK in Fatdog. I have no idea why's that...
The workaround is to use the new (GTK3) naming scheme, e.g. instead of gtk-close use window-close.

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echo '<window icon-name="window-close"><hbox><button ok></button></hbox></window>' | gtkdialog -c -s

Here you can find old->new names.
Btw, new names won't work in any other widgets, only in titlebar.

2. Is it possible to show a window icon by specifying its full path?

Yep, it is:

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echo '<window image-name="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/geany.png"><hbox><button ok></button></hbox></window>' | gtkdialog -c -s 

The same issues and questions extend to the tree widget using <tree icon-name="..."> for a column default icon or <item icon-name="..."> for an item icon.

For stock icons, use stock-id:

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echo '<tree><item stock-id="gtk-close">test</item></tree>' | gtkdialog -s

and for "external" images icon-name, but keep in mind that in the this case you mustn't provide full path to the icon nor its extension; only its name alone.
And the icon needs to be in /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons/*, e.g.:

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echo '<tree><item icon-name="abiword">good</item><item icon-name="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/abiword.png">wrong</item></tree>' | gtkdialog -s

I didn't find a way to use full paths...

Greetings!

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Thanks for the links. On Fatdog some new names work and some don't, so it's a mixed bag. Here's what I found for my use:
DON'T WORK / WORK
gtk-about help-about
preferences-system gtk-preferences
gtk-open document-open
gtk-directory folder
gtk-edit edit-clear *

* gtk-edit was deprecated with no substitute, so I use edit-clear, a not-so-close match, but hey!

[SFR]

Step, I found a real fix for this, see here.

Greetings!

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Step, I found a real fix for this, see here.

I saw it, thanks. I replied in that thread
Incidentally, I compiled the list of new names into a dialog. Icon tooltips show the old/new names.