Icon addition in debian package system

rhklinux · 11-06-2011, 04:35 AM

Ubuntu 10.10
I created a small application and successfully created a debian package using (dpkg -b ). Its going nice,but I want icon of my application in ubuntu main menu->Accessories,I googled about it but cant find any working solution.
Thanks in advance !!

ruario · 11-07-2011, 01:46 AM

Put your icons within the appropriate subdirectories of /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ and your desktop file in /usr/share/applications/. Then have your post install script make the following calls:

update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications
gtk-update-icon-cache -tq /usr/share/icons/hicolor

P.S. You should probably have the post install check for the presence of these two helper apps before it attempts to call them.

ruario · 11-07-2011, 01:51 AM

You will also need a /usr/share/menu/nameofyourapp file if you want this to work with window managers that don't make use of freedesktop.org's Desktop Menu Specification, which would be the majority of smaller window managers.

rhklinux · 11-13-2011, 01:46 AM

First of all thanks for the advice !
I tried what you told,but unfortunately i got no icon in menu.
here is my postinst

Quote:

#!/bin/sh
update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications
gtk-update-icon-cache -tq /usr/share/icons/hicolor

and test.desktop

Quote:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=test
Comment=test
Exec=/usr/bin/test
Name[en_US]=test.desktop
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/test.png
Categories=Application