Missing icon in standalone Enso

[hubertp]

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What type of issue is this?

Transient – Occurring only once

Is this issue blocking you from using Enso?

• [ ] Yes, I can't use Enso because of this issue.

Is this a regression?

• [ ] Yes, previous version of Enso did not have this issue.

What issue are you facing?

Built locally with ./run ide but I guess that shouldn't matter much.

Expected behaviour

App should be packaged with the right icon.

How we can reproduce it?

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Enso Version

efe904cd9f0c44c112a254229d94522802c246e5

Browser or standalone distribution

Standalone distribution

Browser Version or standalone distribution

standalone

Operating System

Linux

Operating System Version

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Hardware you are using

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[4e6]

I remember it was working previously (for pre-built packages). The electron-builder-config provides icns file with the icon https://github.com/enso-org/enso/blob/6b0c682b08b7745368cec3474cc774c51a5b48f5/app/ide-desktop/lib/client/electron-builder-config.ts#L120

The icon size may be an issue https://www.electron.build/icons.html

icon.icns (macOS app icon) or icon.png. Icon size should be at least 512x512.

I can see that on Linux the icon has 64x64 resolution

$ file (readlink enso.png)
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/enso.png: PNG image data, 64 x 64, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

I'm not sure how to check the icns file on macOS.

@hubertp did it work for you previously, e.g. when you install nightlies, or you have never seen the Enso icon? Did you use ./run ide build or ./run ide start command?

@mwu-tow can it be the case that the local ./run ide execution does not fetch the icon file?

Icons - electron-builder

[hubertp]

I believe it used to work for me and I had the icon correctly (so sounds like a regression). I just tried with the latest nightly (via AppImage) and it shows the same thing as when built locally, making the bug rather high priority.

Locally I built using ./run ide start.

[mwu-tow]

@mwu-tow can it be the case that the local ./run ide execution does not fetch the icon file?

I don't think so, icon is generated locally. I'd expect that if it was missing, the electron-builder should raise an error (though I don't know for sure).

@hubertp

Locally I built using ./run ide start.

This won't give you an icon. The ide start does not packages the Electron application but just runs it using the development mode, so no package is being created and no icon will be present.

[hubertp]

@mwu-tow can it be the case that the local ./run ide execution does not fetch the icon file?

I don't think so, icon is generated locally. I'd expect that if it was missing, the electron-builder should raise an error (though I don't know for sure).

@hubertp

Locally I built using ./run ide start.

This won't give you an icon. The ide start does not packages the Electron application but just runs it using the development mode, so no package is being created and no icon will be present.

OK, but executing via AppImage it should work, right?

[mwu-tow]

@mwu-tow can it be the case that the local ./run ide execution does not fetch the icon file?

I don't think so, icon is generated locally. I'd expect that if it was missing, the electron-builder should raise an error (though I don't know for sure).

@hubertp

Locally I built using ./run ide start.

This won't give you an icon. The ide start does not packages the Electron application but just runs it using the development mode, so no package is being created and no icon will be present.

OK, but executing via AppImage it should work, right?

Yes, it should work.

[wdanilo]

I believe that our icon generation scripts fail if they can't generate icons. The electron builder should fail as well ... This is strange. I understand it did not happen with other packages? If so, I'd close it for now and re-open if it happens again.

[vitvakatu]

Two years later, we still have this issue, I just confirmed it on Ubuntu 25. Something weird is happening, but I should be able to investigate as part of Bazel related work in the nearest future.

[hubertp]

I think this is a won't fix with AppImage.

The current electron-build uses .icns (Mac format) which "in theory", at east according to documentation, should work. But if you look at the extracted AppImage contents, the icon is located in /usr/share/... directory with a 0x0 subdirectory, meaning it was unable to generate a png with appropriate resolutions (16x16, 32x32,64x64, etc.)That can be easily fixed by providing the path to a directory with all scaled png images. Unfortunately it does not seem to fix the problem. Neither does setting icon property in electron's BrowserWindow as it is suggested for Linux in various tickets of AppImage. I also read that something has changed wrt to .desktop configuration on Wayland so that could be another reason why at least I couldn't get it to work. Maybe it works on x11. I also noticed that other mature AppImages products show a default icon on my machine. So all in all, it feels like a can of worms not worth pursuing atm at least.

[vitvakatu]

I will close it if no progress is made within the next two months. I still hope to address the issue.