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Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT



Le 04/05/2020 à 22:21, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
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?

Sorry I do not understand your question: I only have one icon, in different sizes (plus one SVG in the "scalable" subdirectory). What I understand is that Freedesktop specification says that application developpers should put the icon in the hicolor directory: am I wrong or missing something?


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