[Fedora-packaging] desktop file icon/pixmap locations

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 03:43:37 UTC 2008


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?"

			regards, tom lane




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