Scripted Plasmoid icon

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been googling all day to find a way to use a custom icon for your
> Plasmoid.
> 
> I found the following snippet in http://code.google.com/p/gmail-
> plasmoid/source/diff?spec=svn22&r=22&format=side&path=/trunk/contents/code/
> main.py

icon to be shown in the widgets explorer, icon of te popupapplet, or..?

> 
> # Install icon if required
> kdehome = str(KGlobal.dirs().localkdedir())
> if not os.path.exists(kdehome+"share/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg"):
>   try:
>     shutil.copy(self.package().path() +
>  "contents/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg",
>  kdehome+"share/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg")
>   except:
>     print "Problem copying icon"
>     print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]
> 
> Is this really the best way to do it?
> I think that ideally you should just place your icon somewhere under
> contents/icons, put it in the metadata.desktop file under "Icon" and it
>  should be recognized by Plasma.
> 
> BTW: The file hierarchy of a Plasmoid isn't really well documented anywhere
> that I can find. If anyone can explain it to me I will be happy to document
>  it on TechBase.
> 


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Marco Martin