Application Icons not showing up

[Christian Ehrlicher]

M. Lara schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using the latest installer 0.9.1beta1, I downloaded the binary packages and
> the dependent files.  In looking at the bin directory it has 148 executable
> files of which 114 files don't have Application icons.
> 
> This may become an issue when the installer creates menu entries or
> otherwise needs an icon to show (besides looking better all around with an
> icon).
> 
> It seems that most of the applications in kdegames, amarok, and qt specific
> applications (assistant, qdbusviewer), all have icons but others (kdeedu,
> etc.) do not. After downloading the sources (again from the installer), I
> was digging around in them and reading (a lot of) wiki pages and it seems
> that the several batch of icons are there, they just appear not to have been
> compiled into the Windows apps (I don't have a Linux system to test on).
> 
> Looking at the CMakeLists.txt file in kdegames source folder where the icons
> are stored for any particular app, it appears that they all have a line
> kde4_add_app_icon(...) in them and the applications without icons don't.  Of
> course I haven't looked at system applications like the dbus-daemon.exe,
> etc. (but Windows isn't consistent with their application icons in the
> system32 folder either).
> 
> Can someone tell me if my thinking is correct?  Also, it seems like it would
> just take grunt work to get those lines in the CMakeLists.txt files, which I
> wouldn't mind working on if it isn't a waste of time or should be done by
> someone else or somewhere else (like trunk) or (lots of) bug reports.
> 
kde4_add_app_icon() has to be added to every CMakeLists.txt. This was 
only done for kdeedu, kdegames and kdesdk for now. system apps like 
dbus-daemon don't have an icon at all.
Since this is very low priority, a bug report won't speed up this issue :)


Christian

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