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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-05-17 18:56, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Den 2015-05-17 18:42, Israel skrev:
> 
>> Apparently, most developers do not know (as I didn't previous to this
>> endeavour) you are 'supposed' to install at least 1 icon in
>> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
>> That is the minimum requirement for an icon, but this does not happen,
>> because the documentation is sparse and hidden away deep in the
>> freedesktop documentation.
>>
> 
> Hi Israel,
> 
> This looks very good (except for you, who have to do a lot of hard work) ;-)
> 
> 1. Can that icon (in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps) be any kind of
> picture file type, for example an svg file, or must it be a png file or
> some other raster graphics format?
> 
> 2. Please post a link to that minimum requirement for an icon :-)
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

Hi again Israel,

Is this it:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons
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Installing Application Icons

So, you're an application author, and want to install application icons
so that they work in the KDE and Gnome menus. Minimally you should
install a 48x48 icon in the hicolor theme. This means installing a PNG
file in $prefix/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps. Optionally you can
install icons in different sizes. For example, installing a svg icon in
$prefix/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps means most desktops will have
one icon that works for all sizes. You might even want to install icons
with a look that matches other well known themes so your application
will fit in with some specific desktop environment.

It is recommended that the icons installed in the hicolor theme look
neutral, since it is a fallback theme that will be used in combination
with some very different looking themes. But if you don't have any
neutral icon, please install whatever icon you have in the hicolor theme
so that all applications get at least some icon in all themes.
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Best regards
Nio