[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

Jacob Rus jrus at fas.harvard.edu
Fri Apr 21 20:44:33 CEST 2006


Christopher Barker wrote:

> Question: Do icons need to be associated with applications? Personally, 
> I'd love to have all my *.py files have a nice python icon, but be able 
> to choose what text editor or IDE I'd want them to open up with my 
> default (and it won't be IDLE!). i.e. I want the python icon, NOT the 
> BBedit icon, even though I usually use BBedit to edit python files.

Yeah, the way to do it is editing the app's Info.plist, and adding the 
icon to my.app/Contents/Resources.  It's not too hard to do, but of 
course will break when you update the app.

-Jacob



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