Here we go again. Just because you $favorite_feture is not supported, you bully around. Kolla, forget it.
No - it really is not a "$favourite_feature", I really couldn't care less about this feature, when it comes to icons, the tools provided by the operating system have been borderline useless/pointless since forever, so I have my ways around it.
But I see where the request comes from, and I find your argument against it very weak, for the reasons I mention - the WBInfo window is already an editor, a rather extensive one - the primary reason for a user to open an info window is to make changes - be it replace icons, edit tool types, set default tool, toggle filesystem flags etc. - because, you know...
an *information window*
that can not..
* display the version of a file
* does not show what filesystem is used on a device/volume (but hey, random information of a filesystem - blocksize - always what I look for!)
* the content size of a drawer (but hey, you can edit tooltypes of drawers - awesome!)
It is a job for an icon editor. We have one. Again a very basic one.
Then, for the sake of consistency, shouldn't also editing tooltypes, default tool, stack size, priority etc. also be left as a job to the icon editor?
The current icon editor is nothing but a very simple and extremely basic graphical editor, and not really so useful for editing icons as it doesn't grasp the "new" icon format properly (read only?), doesn't support more than the 8 basic pens, pasting brushes from programs like PPaint etc doesn't work as intended etc.
Its _only_ metadata editing capabilities IconEdit can do, is setting the "icon type".
Besides, Rawbinfo or swazinfo are not patches. They just implement the info hook of the workbench. If you want features implemented there, bug their authors. It's ok to have third party tools.
RAWBInfo (ReAction-WorkBench-Info) has all features one can wish for, only problem is that it is buggy and unmaintained, and it currently needs 020+, but that could just be a matter of ReAction classes not supporting 68000.