About the icons

> Regarding the icons, i would like to spend some time during ESUG ( or the spring)  merging what i have in Gaucho.
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> Based on the previous work  in MenuIcons and ThemeIcons, i've created an icon family importer, where all the icon contents are stored as methods in the corresponding subclass of  GMIconFamily.
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> A brief introduction,
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> Object subclass: #GMIconFamily
> instanceVariableNames: 'iconsGroups aliases'
> classVariableNames: ''
> poolDictionaries: ''
> category: 'GauchoGUI-Morphic-ImagesAndIcons'
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> Where each GMIconFamily has the corresponding IconFamilyBuilder, that imports the external files from icon specs.
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> IconsFamilyBuilder>>build
> | specs secs |
> specs := self iconsSpecs .
> specs do:[:each| each resourcesFolderName: self resourcesFolderName ].
> ^ GMIconFamily createFamilyNamed: self iconFamilyName specs: specs .
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> For example,
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> IconsFamilyBuilder subclass: #GauchoIconsBuilder
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> GauchoIconsBuilder>>iconsSpecs  
> ^ self definedInSpecs , self bugSpecs, self accessorsSpec, ....
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> GauchoIconsBuilder>>build .
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> Will produce a bunch of methods in the GMIconFamiliyGaucho, that will hold the contents and provide access to the icons ( and also act as a form cache)
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> then  you can do
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> icon := IconMorph named: 'apply' size: 16 familyNamed: 'gaucho'.
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> I think that it wouldn't be hard to integrate this into Pharo1.2, to have a standardized manner of requesting icons, managing the forms,  and  easily importing external icon-families. I would be willing to work on this during the sprint.
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> Fernando
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