Hi,

On Saturday 22 March 2014 19:39:02 mk-li...@email.de wrote:

> [ I am cross-posting this also to KMyMoney’s and KDevelop’s mailing lists,
> because I hope for some synergy (see the example at the bottom of this
> post). ]
> 
> 
> 
> Hi devs,
> 
> I know, the following might not be a very pressing one, but it is a
> long-standing issue on MacPorts [1]
> 
> Many KDE applications are not showing their application icon correctly. For
> visual people it can be a show-stopper, which is why I want to bring it up
> on KDE-DEVEL.
> 
> 
> Here in my MacPorts installation I have in KDE 4.12.2 in total 55 KDE
> applications listed in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/.
> 
> ONLY 11 of these 55 actually show a proper application icon. (I could post a
> screenshot somewhere, in case of need.)
> 
> Well, the apps which are able to supply an application icon are:
>       dolphin.app
>       kapptemplate.app
>       kfind.app
>       khelpcenter.app
>       kmymoney.app
>       kompare.app
>       kuiviewer.app
>       kwrite.app
>       lokalize.app
>       okteta.app
>       umbrello.app
> 
> Of the remaining 55 there are certainly some which belong to applications
> which are only launchers for something or helper apps, but some are
> certainly normal applications which should be supplying an icon. I consider
> the following as such: cervisia.app
>       kate.app
>       kdenlive.app
>       kdevelop.app
>       konqueror.app
> 
> 
> 
> 
> An example:
> -----------------
> 
> 
> KMyMoney obviously does something differently compared to KDevelop, since
> the latter is on MacOSX/MacPorts NOT ABLE to deliver the application icon
> to OSX’ finder and dock.
> 
> If one has added KDevelop to OSX’ dock, one can actually see only a generic
> Xcode-application-icon for KDevelop as long as it is not started.
> 
> Once you start up KDevelop you’ll see that the icon immediately switches to
> the correct one.
> 
> As soon as KDevelop is closed the icon reverts back to the generic one.
> 
> However, KMyMoney does NOT do such a dance!
> 
> 
> Any ideas what could be the reason?


I found the following in KMyMoneys kmymoney/CMakeLists.txt

  KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON( kmymoney_SRCS hi*-app-kmymoney.png )

and http://techbase.kde.org/Development/CMake/Addons_for_KDE shows that this 
is for Windows and MacOSX. It also talks about Finder.

Hope that helps.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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