Re: Application with multiple icons

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Donato Marrazzo
<donato marrazzo gmail com> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how things should work, even to report correctly
> the problem:
> - the application is one but open different windows with different icons. An
> application should open window with same icon, or different icons means
> different application? (so one process can create more application).

No, icons don't matter for applications (in particular window icons
are only used as fallback), what does matter are .desktop files (which
should really should provide a better icon than the corresponding
window property). Now, the most important factor for associating
windows with .desktop files (e.g. applications) is a window's WM_CLASS
- see https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/ApplicationBased for more
details.