.desktop icon is not displayed

Leonti · 08-02-2009, 06:59 PM

Hello!
I'm trying to add .desktop file for my application but I'm stuck with very strange problem.
I created 48x48 icon for my program called etmmanager.png
I created .desktop file according to specifications:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Categories=Application;Utility;X-SuSE-TimeUtility;
Comment=ETM Manager for time logging
Exec=etmmanager
Name=ETM Manager
GenericName=ETM Manager for time logging
Icon=etmmanager
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application

I place .desktop file into /usr/share/applications
I place icon file info /usr/share/pixmaps also tried to put it into
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

My problem is that icon is not working in menu! I can find my program in Utilities->Time->ETM Manager and this is what I wanted, but there is no icon for the program.

It starts working if I specify absolute path in etmmanager.desktop file like

Code:

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/etmmanager.png

About my system - Opensuse 11.1 KDE 4.2

What am I doing wrong?

Leonti

Person_1873 · 08-02-2009, 09:29 PM

you seem to have already solved this problem yourself by specifying an absolute path, where is the problem?

Leonti · 08-03-2009, 12:43 AM

The problem is that my programs are intended to be for different systems and 'prefix' might be different.
On some systems it's '/usr/' on some '/usr/local/' or any other.
So hardcoding absolute path is really not a solution to my problem.

Person_1873 · 01-07-2010, 09:32 PM

then why not have the program place this icon in that absolute path at launch?