Re: [Squirrel-sql-users] Unix application icon

[Federico B. <fe...@in...>]

It doesn't work  either:

1. no icon in gnome-shell
2. cannot open the .ico file with Gnome image viewer. I get the error: 
"Invalid header in icon".

Why not changing to .png?

Il giorno mar 27 dic 2016 alle 21:28, Gerd Wagner 
<ger...@t-...> ha scritto:
> Sorry, I can't reproduce the problem on my KDE desktop. But since 
> there seems to be a problem with icon compression you may try out the 
> following snapshot where the icon isn't compressed anymore.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel-sql/files/3-snapshots/snapshot-20161227_2119/
> 
> Gerd
> 
> 
> Am 24.12.2016 um 10:07 schrieb Federico Bruni:
>> I've tried, but now no icon is displayed when I search or bookmark
>> Squirrel.
>> The desktop file still contains a link to the .ico file:
>> 
>> Icon=/home/fede/usr/squirrel-sql-snapshot-20161223_2019/icons/acorn.ico
>> 
>> I cannot open the acorn.ico file. The Gnome image viewer says
>> "Compressed icons not supported".
>> 
>> $ file usr/squirrel-sql-snapshot-20161223_2019/icons/acorn.ico
>> usr/squirrel-sql-snapshot-20161223_2019/icons/acorn.ico: MS Windows 
>> icon
>> resource - 1 icon, 256x256 with PNG image data, 512 x 512, 
>> 8-bit/color
>> RGBA, non-interlaced, 32 bits/pixel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Il giorno ven 23 dic 2016 alle 20:27, Gerd Wagner
>> <ger...@t-...> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> The problem should be fixed. Could you please give
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel-sql/files/3-snapshots/snapshot-20161223_2019
>>> 
>>> a try.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Gerd
>>> 
>>> Am 22.12.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Federico Bruni:
>>>> Hi all
>>>> 
>>>> In the last snapshots I've noticed the new crispy icon acorn.png
>>>> However in Linux (Fedora, gnome-shell) I see the old acorn.ico 
>>>> when I
>>>> search the application (and when I mark it as favorite) and I see 
>>>> the
>>>> nice acorn.png when SquirrelSQL is running. Inconsistent behaviour.
>>>> 
>>>> This is because the .desktop file generated during the installation
>>>> contains the path to the .ico file.
>>>> Can you change it to the .png file?
>>>> 
>>>> [squirrel-sql-git (master)]$ git grep acorn\.ico
>>>> archive/sql12/build/Unix_shortcutSpec.xml:
>>>> iconFile="$INSTALL_PATH/icons/acorn.ico"
>>>> archive/sql12/build/shortcutSpec.xml:
>>>> iconFile="$INSTALL_PATH/icons/acorn.ico"
>>>> archive/squirrel-sql/build/shortcutSpec.xml:
>>>> iconFile="$INSTALL_PATH/icons/acorn.ico"
>>>> sql12/core/doc/changes.txt:On Mac OS X the SQuirreL now uses the 
>>>> acorn
>>>> icon instead of the default java coffee cup icon.
>>>> sql12/installer/other/Unix_shortcutSpec.xml:
>>>> iconFile="$INSTALL_PATH/icons/acorn.ico"
>>>> sql12/installer/other/shortcutSpec.xml:
>>>> iconFile="$INSTALL_PATH/icons/acorn.ico"
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> As far as I can see in the freedesktop spec, PNG is the recommended
>>>> bitmap format:
>>>> 
>>>>> An icon file is an image that can be loaded and used as an icon. 
>>>>> The
>>>>> supported image file formats are PNG, XPM and SVG. PNG is the
>>>>> recommended bitmap format, and SVG is for vectorized icons. XPM is
>>>>> supported due to backwards compability reasons, and it is not
>>>>> recommended that new themes use XPM files. Support for SVGs is
>>>>> optional.
>>>> 
>>>>  From:
>>>> https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Federico
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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