MimeType .desktop file + icon

[Michael Biebl]

If you install a mimetype, the mimetype will be system wide and not
application specific. So the short answer is, yes. Install the icons
for the mimetype into the KDE standard dirs (hicolor).

Cheers,
Michael

2006/8/27, Martin Koller <m.koller at surfeu.at>:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm implementing a new KDE application and according to
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto/en/_icons_.html
>
> I should install app specific icons in the app specific directory with
> appicondir = $(kde_datadir/myapp/icons
> appicon_ICON = AUTO
>
> When I now also install MIME icons (for a new MimeType I also install) into
> the app specific dir, KDE won't find them.
> Also, the application icon is not shown in the K-Menu structure.
>
> Is the only solution to install the icons in the KDE std. dirs
> using KDE_ICON = AUTO
> in Makefile.am ?
>
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