[Qt-interest] Unable to use .rc file for application icon.

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

Knoll Oliver, ITS-CMT-SUI-SL-PDC-FIN-DEV wrote on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:20 AM:

> ...
> That said, how an icon is associated with an "exectuable" (binary
> file, shell script, ...) is desktop dependent (and different than
> what Windows does, see above), but I think KDE/Gnome share the same
> mechanism. There are *.launch (?) files generated which specify the
> location in the "start menu", > ...

The file format I was desperately looking for is described here:

  http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

The files are called *.desktop. As I said, they specify several stuff, e.g. the MIME-Type associated with that application, the icon, the location on the desktop/start menu etc.

I think using the same *.ico file as a desktop icon should work, but when in doubt use *.png.


Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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