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

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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.

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Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-04 10:50 +0200
  Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 15:40 +0200
    Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-04 16:40 +0200
      Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 17:10 +0200
        Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-04 21:30 +0200
          Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-04 22:30 +0200
            Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 23:00 +0200
              Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-04 23:10 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-05-05 12:50 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-05 16:00 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-05 16:50 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-05 17:10 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-05 21:00 +0200
                Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr> - 2020-05-06 15:00 +0200
          Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2020-05-04 22:30 +0200

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