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On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 18:57, Curtis Rey wrote:
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Ok, I have been trying to pretty up my menus and I do a search for <pick an app>. I first do something like "locate foo.xpm" and see if I get a return. Then I do a "locate foo.png" and if that doesn't turn up anything. If not them a just do a wider search for "locate foo" and look for icon extensions. I have found a few icons to say the least. But I have run in to a situation wherein no *,xpm/.png exists but a *.desktop does. Looking at this it looks like an icon to me! But try to change the extension from *.desktop to *.xpm (or ,png) and it almost always turns into a generic/broken file page symbol/icon.
So,... What is the difference that make a *.desktop unique/special compared to a more common *.xpm/.png extensions?
A .desktop file is just a text file, not an image. Konqueror displays an icon for it, is that what you mean by "it looks like an icon to me"? Open the .desktop file in a text editor, you should see a line "Icon=something", that something is the name of the icon displayed