An Icon?

[stefanor]

Forwarded from: Debian #854131:

Hi, The xdot package installs a xdot.desktop file but is not setting any icon. Could you please provide an icon for the application? Regrads,

I know you aren't shipping the desktop file, we are. But it would be nice if there was a project logo to use as the icon.

[jrfonseca]

I'd happily accept a patch, but besides the open issue of making/choosing an icons, I'm not familiar with the process of integrating and deploying icons, and I'm afraid this is not high enough in my priority list to go figure it out.

I googled for CC icons and these looks nice:

• https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/tree-structure_3637
• https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/flow-chart_648929

In short, if a charitable soul makes a pull request to add an icon, I'll happily merge it.

[jeremydouglass]

Not my area of expertise, but I don't think the xdot source is the place to add a Debian app icon. Instead, I think (?) you want to add it to the package:

• https://packages.debian.org/sid/xdot
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/xdot/filelist

...specifically, to the .desktop file, e.g. like in the discussion here:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35641796/how-to-install-icon-in-a-ubuntu-package

[valpackett]

hi! The source is absolutely the right place. An icon belongs to the app, not to the distribution. (I'm currently updating the FreeBSD port, by the way.)

Here's a good example of installing icons, desktop files and other stuff with distutils: https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/blob/4b9a65758da4bb27724ac1f94162810a29cb3877/setup.py#L44-50

    data_files=[
        ('share/applications', ['mat.desktop']),
        ('share/mat', ['data/FORMATS', 'data/mat.glade']),
        ('share/pixmaps', ['data/mat.png']),
        ('share/doc/mat', ['README.md', 'README.security']),
        ('share/man/man1', ['mat.1', 'mat-gui.1']),
        ('share/nautilus-python/extensions', ['nautilus/nautilus-mat.py'])
    ],

(I would prefer share/icons/hicolor/{SIZE}/apps/ to the old share/pixmaps though, as some launchers like rofi (used to?) ignore pixmaps)

[stefanor]

setuptools doesn't even have to do anything special with the icon. Just blessing a particular icon and shipping it in the tarball, would allow distros to do the right thing with it :)