Bug#751698: RFS: talksoup.app/1.0alpha-32-g55b4d4e-2 [ITA]
* Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>, 2014-08-23, 19:51:
- The desktop icon doesn't show in my start menu (KDE) I am not sure it
this is because KDE doesn't support tiff, or that tiff in general is
not accepted in desktop files.
It's kinda both. Desktop Entry Specification[0] doesn't say anything
about icon formats explicitly. It only says:
Icon to display in file manager, menus, etc. If the name is an absolute
path, the given file will be used. If the name is not an absolute path,
the algorithm described in the Icon Theme Specification will be used to
locate the icon.
Icon Theme Specification[1] says:
The supported image file formats are PNG, XPM and SVG. PNG is the
recommended bitmap format, and SVG is for vectorized icons. XPM is
supported due to backwards compability reasons, and it is not
recommended that new themes use XPM files. Support for SVGs is
optional.
The package in question uses an absolute path, so one could argue that
Icon Theme Specification isn't relevant here. But practically, you
shouldn't expect that consumers of desktop files support anything beyond
PNG, XPM, and maybe SVG.
[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/latest/ar01s02.html
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Jakub Wilk
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