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

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Le 05/05/2020 à 17:06, Yvan Masson a écrit :
> 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.
> 
I am again in a working state: my desktop file is named 
"libretrombi.desktop", my icons "libretrombi.png", and my executable 
"libretrombi". This is good, but I want to distribute my software with 
Flatpak, which requires the use of an "application ID" (e.g. 
org.domain.myapp), so I will continue experiment.

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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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