[maemo-developers] application icon on task navigator

[From: Agathon]

You can look at my desktop file but extra spaces at the end of line
aren't easy to see and other posters have said that they are problematic.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=airmiles
X-Window-Icon=airmiles
Name=AirMiles
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin//airmiles
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-Osso-Service=com.nokia.airmiles

While I've gotten the icon to display in the Task Navigator I still
haven't gotten it to display in the Application Switcher. So you may want
to look at some others. That's easier than you may think. It seems that a
deb file is just a special sort of archive that you can open with many
programs,

On WINDOWS I've been using 7-zip to look at deb files. It shows two
files, you want to open 'data.tar.gz' and then 'data.tar' and finally
navigate to '\usr\share\applications\hildon' to find 'appname.desktop'
and you can also peek around directories 'icons' and 'pixmaps'. I believe
that the one that appears on the task manager is one found in

\usr\share\icons\hicolor\scalable\hildon\

It must be a png file and 64 pixels wide and either 64 or 54 high, I've
seen both used and both sizes stated in various documents.

My own modest application is here
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/airmiles if you want to see the tree
structure that I used

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