[Feature] Add application icon

[Stormersh]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): January 16
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 35
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes]
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

During the installation of a game, there's a prompt asking if you want a desktop shortcut and/or system application icon. If you fail to select it there's currently no way to add the latter after installation.

My suggestion would be to add one along "Add desktop shortcut" - This could help on issues like #7601, especially if it's possible to select several games.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Start installation of a game
2. Forget to check "Create a system application icon"
3. Finish installation
4. Right click the game, search for an option to create one
5. Cry?

[nahla-nee]

Any update on this? Can't reasonably be that hard too add, just a new button calling some old code. I switched distros recently and I keep all my games on a separate drive, so for me it was a matter of simply showing steam where the folder is, however it doesn't create system icons/applications when you do this. I only managed to half fix it by manually adding a desktop shortcut to all my games then doing "mv ~/Desktop/* ~/.local/share/applications/", however this doesn't fix the issue of icons because steam doesn't correctly add the icons for those games and instead just uses the "steam" icon.

This is really annoying, but not the biggest deal in the world. It would be a lot more tolerable to fix this by hand if steam would at least tell me where its getting its icons from, it just auotmagically creates them into the ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/ icon folders and you have no idea where the actual icons are stored. Conflicting answers all over the internet and all of them are wrong... Hell if it was a symlink at least I could figure out where the icons are and fix it myself.

[filvarga]

Looking for exactly the same thing. Hopefully this gets solved.

[kayomn]

This seems more like a bug than a feature request, as .desktop files added to launcher menus during installation have the game icon.

[filvarga]

They get only added if you check the checkbox. If you don't then you are out of luck.

[Syphdias]

Since I did not find this issue, I opened #9821, because I only searched for adding "start menu" entry.

I thought I would drop by to add my current workaround if somebody finds this. But of course a menu entry for manage would really be appreciated!

My current workaround with "Sea of Thieves" as a example

• add desktop shortcut for the game: Right-click the game > Manage > Add desktop shortcut
• move the shortcut to the "start menu" folder: e.g. mv ~/Desktop/Sea\ of\ Thieves.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/