On Saturday 19 January 2008 14:53, Stan Goodman wrote:
> I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as
> generic icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more
> intuitive icons for these. How must I go about replacing one for the
> other?
You don't say whether you're using KDE or Gnome. I can give you the KDE
answer (Gnome is probably similar, but I can readily confirm that
supposition or give any real details).
The GUI way:
Right click on the desktop icon in question. From the pop-menu that
appears, select Properties (the last item in the menu). In the
resulting dialog there are several tabs. Initially you see the General
tab, and on that tab is the currently assigned icon. This is a button.
Click it and the system will present you with a window holding all the
icons known to KDE at the moment ("System icons"). You can pick one of
these or switch to "Other icons." When you do that (select Other icons)
the Browse... button will be enabled. Click that and you can use the
resulting file system browsing dialog to locate the icon file you want
to use or you can simply paste the absolute path name of that file into
the Location field.
The text editor way:
Edit the desktop icon file (a text file) which by definition resides in
~/Desktop. By default, the file name is the same as the icon title with
the suffix ".desktop" appended, but if you change the display name of
the icon, the file name stays the same. In that file you should see a
line that starts with "Icon=". The rest of that line is the absolute
path name to the icon file. Replace it with the one you want to use. If
there's no such line, add one.
> What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use
> in the Llinux desktop?
KDE can use PNG, JPEG, GIF, XPM, SVG and .ico files. Probably you can
just use whatever you've got.
NOTE: The browser referred to in "The GUI way" above will only show PNG,
XPM and SVG (including compressed SVG files with a .svgz suffix). But
you can enter files of the other formats I mentioned, too. I rarely
bother with the browsing bit, since I have scripts I use in the shell
to copy the absolute path name of any file I choose to the clipboard.
> --
> Stan Goodman
Randall Schulz
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