Re: [gnome-love] How can I have an icon in the gnome-menu ?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:29 +0100, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've packaged my first complete Gnome application but I experience a
> very strange behaviour with icons in the menu. As it was done more by
> try/error than by real understanding, I guess I missed something.
>
> My application is called "gtg" and I've put a gtg.desktop
> in /usr/share/applications with the following line in it :
>
> Icon=gtg
>
> I've also put a gtg.png in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16 22x22 24x24
> and a .svg in scalable.
>
>
> So, does it work ?  Maybe.
>
> On one computer, it worked as soon as the application was installed
> On another computer, it required to killall gnome-panel because the
> icon never showed up.
> On the third computer, there's no icon at all.
>
> All 3 computers are Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm completely lost trying to find
> out what can be the cause of this problem. Also, I don't understand
> what the /usr/share/pixmaps folder is.
>
>
> Is there a good ressource about that ? It still seems like black magic
> to me and I hate that feeling.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/integration-guide/stable/

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Shaun