Re: Linux application icon
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73930/linux-desktop-shortcut-and-icon-from-install http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-desktop-icon You have to either have users who will do desktop icons for themselves, or you have to write a shell script. Or, there is a free Linux installer, installjammer, maybe that does it? Writing a shell script is probably the simplest. You have to do other things in way of installing, you probably need an install script anyway, just include this in the script. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Linux-application-icon-tp2253700p2254174.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Linux application icon
The Rev IDE gives the ability to create the icon for Mac and Windows applications but not LInux. How do I do this for a Linux application? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Linux application icon
Hi Bill, On linux, applications does not bundle the icons like Windows or MacOS. You have to use xdg-utils tools to create desktop icons on the GNOME Desktop environment. http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Regards, Damien Girard NativeSoft, France. -Message d'origine- De : use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] De la part de Bill Vlahos Envoyé : dimanche 13 juin 2010 21:47 À : How to use Revolution Objet : Linux application icon The Rev IDE gives the ability to create the icon for Mac and Windows applications but not LInux. How do I do this for a Linux application? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux application icon
On 06/13/2010 10:46 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: The Rev IDE gives the ability to create the icon for Mac and Windows applications but not LInux. How do I do this for a Linux application? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution A bit of a humphy thing. You need to make a PNG image of your icon. As far as I am aware (probably Peter Alcibiades can help you here) the end-user will then have to assign the PNG as the icon to the standalone via the Properties palette in the Window manager. Of course there is always the risk that they will assign a different image as an icon - but you cannot really have freedom with restrictions, and Linux systems do allow an incredible amount oif customisation and mucking about. Out of interest; if you assign an icon to a standalone under KDE it does not usually stick should you then change to another Window manager such as GNOME or XFCE (obviously if you transfer to some sort of minimalist W-Manager that does not feature icons the question doesn't arise). Mind you, I suppose that most folks stick with one W-manager (I use GNOME on most of my machines with Ubuntu - but Mint Linux with XFCE is rather attractive). I have found no other way to do things; a right bu**er as it means that when the end-user cracks open the archive you distribute your standalone + PNG image in, they have to assign the icon; and, obviously, not all end-users will either know how to do that or be bothered to do it. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Linux application icon
On 06/13/2010 11:12 PM, Damien Girard wrote: Hi Bill, On linux, applications does not bundle the icons like Windows or MacOS. You have to use xdg-utils tools to create desktop icons on the GNOME Desktop environment. http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Reading that made me feel both stupid and headachey! Command-line apps do that to me. The caveat is about 2 thirds of the way down the page: And now your product has a menu on any XDG compliant desktop! so; as you really don't know what sort of Window Manager and/or Desktop manager your end-user favours this doesn't help much, except that, at least, a subset of your end-users will end up with a predetermined icon. So, pop a PNG image of the icon in your distribution archive for the awkward ones . . . :) The next bit made my toes curl a bit: Changes in xdg-utils 1.0.1: * Several shell syntax issues causing failures on Ubuntu 6.10 despite the page supposedly having been updated this year, as Ubuntu users are running at 10.04 I wonder how much further than 6.10 the thing has been tested on. This would also suggest that the thing has ONLY been tested on Ubuntu; which while being the most popular desktop distro out there, is not the only one by a very long chalk indeed: who knows it may totally scr*w up on some other distro. Being pessimistic; but better that than having egg all over my face when somebody writes me a mildly abusive e-mail about my product showing up on their personal Linux designed with 'Linux fron scratch' without a special icon. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
