On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 21:22:20 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 04/05/2020 à 17:06, Liam O'Toole a écrit : > > On Mon, 04 May, 2020 at 16:28:30 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > No problem Didier, I appreciate all answers, even not on the list :-) > > > > > > I had not read the Freedesktop wiki before, but unfortunately it does not > > > help: I thought the solution was here when it says icon "has to have the > > > same name as the executable", but tried it without luck (and many > > > well-know > > > programs do not conform to this statement, see simple-scan for example). > > > > > > I just read again the "icon naming spec" and "desktop-entry-spec" but I > > > still fail to find the the cause of this issue. > > > > > > Any other idea, even eccentric, is welcome! > > > > > > Le 04/05/2020 à 15:37, didier gaumet a écrit : > > > > my apologies to Yvan, I replied to him by e-mail (clicked too hastily) > > > > > > > > I am not knowledgeable at all about this subject but perhaps you will > > > > find some hints there? > > > > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Howto_desktop_files/ > > > > > > > > Just to clarify ... did you specify the absolute path to the icon or > > not? If not, where did you install the icon file? > > > PS Please don't top-post. > > I used a relative path (without file extension), and installed the icons > (PNG of different sizes and one SVG) in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/. I > also tried in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ and ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/ > with the same result.
That looks reasonable. Does your current icon theme inherit from hicolor?
