Re: Can't resolve custom icons in the panel

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net> wrote:
>> I'm still trying to get custom icons to appear in my extension's panel
>> indicator. I've done the following:
>>
>>  - added my icon to
>> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/hicolor/48x48/actions/window-tile-horizontal.png
>>  - created an StIcon, and added it to my indicator's panel actor
>>
>> If I use icon.set_name("go-down"), the down arrow appears in my
>> indicator. So it seems I'm hooking up the icon / layout correctly.
>> However, if I use icon.set_name("window-tile-horizontal"), no icon
>> appears.
>> I am sure that the icon is in the right place, as:
>>
>> $ notify-send --icon=window-tile-horizontal "test"
>>
>> works and correctly shows my custom icon with the notification. Is
>> there some difference between how notify-send and StIcon resolve their
>> icon images?
>
> StIcon defaults to an icon type of SYMBOLIC, so you need to stick an
> SVG in the correct place to have a proper symbolic icon, as
> recommended.

Ahh, thank you. Can you point me to any further info? I haven't found
the xdg icon spec terribly enlightening. It mentions a "-symbolic"
suffix, but so far I've found no luck displaying a file that I've
placed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/hicolor/scalable/status/window-tile-horizontal-symbolic.svg,
regardless of whether I include the "-symbolic" part in the icon name.

Thanks,
 - Tim.