[Kmymoney-devel] Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

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[ I am cross-posting this also to KMyMoney’s and KDevelop’s mailing lists, because I hope for some synergy (see the example at the bottom of this post). ]



Hi devs,

I know, the following might not be a very pressing one, but it is a long-standing issue on MacPorts [1]

Many KDE applications are not showing their application icon correctly. For visual people it can be a show-stopper, which is why I want to bring it up on KDE-DEVEL.


Here in my MacPorts installation I have in KDE 4.12.2 in total 55 KDE applications listed in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/.

ONLY 11 of these 55 actually show a proper application icon. (I could post a screenshot somewhere, in case of need.)

Well, the apps which are able to supply an application icon are:
	dolphin.app
	kapptemplate.app
	kfind.app
	khelpcenter.app
	kmymoney.app
	kompare.app
	kuiviewer.app
	kwrite.app
	lokalize.app
	okteta.app
	umbrello.app

Of the remaining 55 there are certainly some which belong to applications which are only launchers for something or helper apps, but some are certainly normal applications which should be supplying an icon. I consider the following as such:
	cervisia.app
	kate.app
	kdenlive.app
	kdevelop.app
	konqueror.app




An example:
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KMyMoney obviously does something differently compared to KDevelop, since the latter is on MacOSX/MacPorts NOT ABLE to deliver the application icon to OSX’ finder and dock.

If one has added KDevelop to OSX’ dock, one can actually see only a generic Xcode-application-icon for KDevelop as long as it is not started.

Once you start up KDevelop you’ll see that the icon immediately switches to the correct one.

As soon as KDevelop is closed the icon reverts back to the generic one.

However, KMyMoney does NOT do such a dance!


Any ideas what could be the reason?


Greets,
Marko



[1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27931