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trollo
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 Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:37 am Post subject: Icon guidelines for Linux/Gentoo/Gnome? |
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I just spent some time getting a proper icon for media-sound/picard on my relatively fresh Gnome 3 system. It initially just installed a picard.ico into /usr/share/pixmaps/ which apparently wasn't recognized by Gnome. I don't know much about ebuilds, but I decided to meddle around with it a bit in my local overlay.
First I tried to install picard.svg (there are SVGs in the source package) into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ with
| Code: | | newicon -s scalable resources/img-src/Picard-256.svg picard.svg |
which I thought to be the proper location. Didn't work. (The file was correctly copied but Gnome didn't display the icon)
Then I tested creating ~/.icons/hicolor/scalable/apps as user and putting picard.svg in there. This worked, but didn't satisfy me since I wanted to make the ebuild properly install the icon globally, so I tried my luck installing it into /usr/share/pixmaps/ with
| Code: | | newicon resources/img-src/Picard-256.svg picard.svg |
and it worked as well.
But to be honest, I'm confused. So before I open a bug with my fixed ebuild, I want to understand this. Why didn't my first approach work? What are the guidelines regarding icon locations in Linux/Gentoo/Gnome? Why are ebuilds even installing *.ico files, isn't that a Windows format? |
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Dominique_71
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It's explained into the devman. As you was able to use the newicon command, I guess you read that.
It can be a problem with the desktop file provided by picard in /usr/share/applications. If the icon name is provided, and is not the same as the one you used, your desktop will fail to show the icon. I am also not sure if you can have svg files into /usr/share/icons. If not explained into the devman, you can find it into the freedesktop menu specification at freedesktop.org
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