Re: unclear documentation about .desktop file icon location

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

Hi Daniel,

If you want to request or suggest a change to the documentation, you are better off filing a bug against gnome-devel-docs.

However, in this case I'm not sure whether this really is an issue with the docs or what you're doing. :) You might be best to ask in #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org for advise from a developer.

Best wishes,

Allan

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:08 PM, dalanicolai <dalanicolai gmail com> wrote:

Dear web-list members,

I am completely new here and it is not clear to me where I should mail my comment/question to.

Anyway, I am unable to find clear documentation about the installation of the icon used for .desktop files.

The documentation on the gnome-website states that I should place the icon in the location /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/.

However placing a 48x48 pixels.png icon in that location did not result in the menu item to show the icon. Actually, I tried to fix the 'icon no show' problem after installing the application 'cherrytree', which puts a .svg icon in the location /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/. After 'researching' the problem for quite a long time I finally found that placing the icon in the location /usr/share/pixmaps/ fixed the problem. Subsequently I was not able to find any gnome documentation on the location /usr/share/pixmaps/. To prevent others spending their time on researching this issue would it be possible to revise/clarify the documentation?

I would be happy to do it myself, however I don't know how the icon lookup works (I am learning to code, but I am still a novice). A (comment on) revision or any help on revising it myself would be highly appreciated. Thank you...

Daniel

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