Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT
On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
> > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
> > > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-)
> > >
> > > I had not read the Freedesktop wiki before, but unfortunately it does not
> > > help: I thought the solution was here when it says icon "has to have the
> > > same name as the executable", but tried it without luck (and many well-know
> > > programs do not conform to this statement, see simple-scan for example).
> > >
> > > I just read again the "icon naming spec" and "desktop-entry-spec" but I
> > > still fail to find the the cause of this issue.
> > >
> > > Any other idea, even eccentric, is welcome!
> > >
> > > Le 04/05/2020 à 15:37, didier gaumet a écrit :
> > > > my apologies to Yvan, I replied to him by e-mail (clicked too hastily)
> > > >
> > > > I am not knowledgeable at all about this subject but perhaps you will
> > > > find some hints there?
> > > > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Howto_desktop_files/
> > > >
> >
> > Just to clarify ... did you specify the absolute path to the icon or
> > not? If not, where did you install the icon file? >
> > PS Please don't top-post.
>
> I used a relative path (without file extension), and installed the icons
> (PNG of different sizes and one SVG) in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/. I
> also tried in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ and ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/
> with the same result.
That looks reasonable. Does your current icon theme inherit from hicolor?
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