Bug 86299 – games-arcade/blobwars: doesn't install icon to /usr/share/pixmaps

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 12:58:43 UTC]

blobwars installs a .desktop entry, but not an icon to /usr/share/pixmaps, which is where some desktop environments (at least xfce4) check for icons.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 12:59:43 UTC]

Created attachment 54176 [details, diff]
patch to ebuild to install an icon

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 14:41:16 UTC]

The current ebuild installs three icons:

/usr/share/icons/mini/blobwars.png
/usr/share/icons/large/blobwars.png
/usr/share/icons/blobwars.png

[Comment 3 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 22:41:14 UTC]

I did see that, but I had thought that /usr/share/pixmaps was where icons should be (doicon installs there). Aside from that, it would seem to be more an xfce bug not having /usr/share/icons in its icon search path.

[Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-03-23 00:02:05 UTC]

yep, the freedesktop standard says things snould look in /usr/share/icons before /usr/share/pixmaps.  Both gnome and kde work correctly in this regard.  I recommend you get xfce to follow the standard.

[Comment 5 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2005-03-28 20:33:13 UTC]

A filed a bug to xfce about this over at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=861 regarding this.

So, it would seem that an icon would have to be installed in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ structure, in addition to the icon being square (right now its rectangular).

I've sent an email to the blobwars author, so hopefully this can be fixed upstream.