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

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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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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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