dan sinclair wrote:
> Jochen Schroeder wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I cannot get edje icons to display in my menu, although they display
>> fine in Ibar and on the borders. I reported that a while ago, but the
>> problem is still there, both for the debian packages from edevelop and
>> compiled cvs.
>> I also noticed I have to specify the full path when using using an edje
>> file with a name which also matches a png icon somewhere in the
>> freedesktop icon search path, however if I choose a different name it
>> will use the edje if it can be found in .local/share/icons. So as an
>> example if I specify
>> Icon=iceweasel.edj in my .desktop file it will take the
>> iceweasel.{png,xpm,svg} icon specified either by the icon theme or in
>> hicolor as a fallback. It just ignores the filename extension. Even if I
>> place the edje file in the appropriate place (e.g. hicolor/128x128/apps)
>> efreet still chooses the the png file. Now if I specify
>> Icon=myiceweasel.edj and have it in .local/share/icons this file is
>> chosen for Ibar and the borders. I guess this is because the freedesktop
>> specs only allow png,xpm and svg icons, and edj icons are kind of an
>> extension to this. However I think it is quite confusing, that if you
>> specify an .edj file e uses a png(xpm,svg) file, although the edje file
>> is in the correct place.
>>
>
> Specifying the extension in the .desktop file is technically against the
> spec. Efreet allows it as it seems to be done by quite a few people but
> Efreet will just strip the extension before doing the lookup. E is
> adding the .edj extension to the Efreet list which prepends so it should
> be checking .edj before .png or .xpm files.
>
> .local/share/icons should be picked up before any of the other search
> paths (which depend on your XDG settings).
I also think there might be a bug in efreet which makes it not honor the
users preferred extension. This will be fixed during the remake of the
icon cache.
Sebastian
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