Notices

1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 10:17:33 CEST Adrian Cochrane

   • Aral Balkan
   • Aadil Ayub

   @aral @aadilayub On all these desktops app icons are expected to be installed to:
   /usr{/local?}/share/icons/$theme/$size/apps/$reversedns.png

   /local is optional, $theme is the icon theme it caters to, $size is how many pixels it is tall & wide, & $reversedns identifies your app. A variety of image formats are supported, though I usually see PNG or SVG.

   Any "Linux" app will install an icon to the "hicolor" theme which is the standardized fallback, though it recently doesn't have to be that.

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   • Mathieu [bochecha] (mathieu@mstdn.fr)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 10:41:21 CEST Mathieu [bochecha]

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Aadil Ayub

     @alcinnz @aral @aadilayub inside a flatpak, it's /app/share, not /usr/share.

     It's better to use the variables in your buildsystem, so the stuff gets installed in the right paths depending on the situation.

     Icons go into $(datadir)/icons. All buildsystems understand this variable and will do the right thing.

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 10:41:24 CEST Aral Balkan

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Aadil Ayub

     @alcinnz @aral @aadilayub Nice! So it should be a perfectly acceptable policy to say: you have a way of maintaining full artistic control over your icon on any theme. If you don’t want to, or don’t have the time to (entirely understandable), others might expand effort to do so if they care about your app and about maintaining the consistency of the experience on their platform. In which case, the polite response is a simple thank you for their time and energy and perhaps constructive criticism.