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

From Yvan Masson <yvan@masson-informatique.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT
Date 2020-05-05 17:10 +0200
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Le 05/05/2020 à 16:48, Yvan Masson a écrit :
> Le 05/05/2020 à 15:52, Yvan Masson a écrit :
>> Le 05/05/2020 à 12:42, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
>>> On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 23:02:16 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
>>>> Le 04/05/2020 à 22:52, Liam O'Toole a écrit :
>>>>> On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 22:29:14 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote:
>>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> To simplify the question: what does
>>>>>
>>>>>       gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme
>>>>>
>>>>> say?
>>>>>
>>>> It says "Adwaita"
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK. Try putting your icon file in one of the Adwaita directories instead
>>> of hicolor.
>>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but no change. It seems normal because 
>> desktop environment must fall back to hicolor theme when the icon is 
>> not found is the current theme (see "Installing Application Icons" in 
>> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons). 
>>
>>
>> I might have a similar issue as the one discribed on 
>> https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/821 but I still 
>> need to investigate.
>>
> OK, I found a solution: I renamed my python script in /usr/local/bin to 
> "libretrombi" and it works now.
> 
> I did so many tests I forgot that I won't try to find a proper 
> explanation. Thanks for your suggestions!
> 
Unfortunately there must be caching somewhere in LXQT, or I missed 
something, because after login in to Gnome again I could not see my icon 
anymore. And I see now that it does not work anymore in LXQT… :-(

I will have to make some new tests… I will let you know.

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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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