[Fedora-packaging] desktop file icon/pixmap locations

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 04:29:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 23:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> writes:
> > Supported formats for themed icons are xpm, png and svg. Thus, if you
> > install the icon below /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ it should be in one of
> > those formats. If you install it in /usr/share/pixmaps, it can really be
> > anything, but traditionally, that directory is for xpms. In the desktop
> > file, the icon should be either specified as a full path (including
> > extension) or as an icon name (without extension), the latter being
> > preferred. 
> 
> I guess the appropriate question for this list is "where is all that
> documented?"

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ 
is the spec describing .desktop files

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
is the spec describing icon themes




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