[maemo-developers] Attach an icon to an application does not work

[From: Daniil Ivanov]

Hi all!

  Also there is a bug
  https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6931
  requiring device reboot to show proper application icon after installation.

Thanks, Daniil.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:12 PM, David King <davidk at openismus.com> wrote:
> On 2010-07-15 14:45, Pierre CLARENC <pierre.crc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have developed a small program using ESbox. It works well when I execute
>> it on my N900.
>>
>> I want to attach a specific icon to this program. I use a 48*48 px image
>> (PNG format) that I have resized with the GIMP. I use the following
>> command
>> to generate a base64 coded image:
>>
>> uuencode -m icon.png icon.png > icon_64.base64
>>
>> But when I install my deb package on the device, the icon does not work. I
>> only have the blue square instead.
>
> The instructions at:
>
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#Displaying_an_icon_in_the_Application_Manager_next_to_your_package
>
> (that you apparently followed) refer to an icon in the application manager
> only. If you wish to have an icon shown in the application menu, then you
> should install it to the correct location (usually
> /usr/share/icons/hicolor/<size> where <size> is one of a range of possible
> values, e.g. 16x16, 32x32, scalable). Then, you must refer to that icon in
> the desktop file, see:
>
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging#Desktop_files
>
> and the links in that section for some more details.
>
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