On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:28 -0500, D. Marlin wrote: > Matej Tyc wrote: > > Hello, > > I am developing an application that could use a menu entry. I have > > learned that I have to drop an appropriate .desktop file to > > /usr/share/applications, but I have problems with icons. > > If I write Icon=foo, then where to put the actual icon? > > I'm not an expert on this, but one location where you can place an icon > is in $PREFIX/share/pixmaps, i.e.: > > /usr/share/pixmaps/ > > You'll find a lot of icons there. > > As I understand it, there are alternate icon locations that make up the > search path, including paths for themes, but I don't know the full > search path right now. Maybe someone else here can clue me in. ;-)
The "pixmaps" directory is deprecated in favor of icon themes. See the Icon Theme Specification (and the Icon Naming Specification). :) -- Rodney _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
