[opensuse] - how to change desktop Application Icon Type ?
Hello List, when hovering Mouse pointer, over Desktop Application launcher Icon, one sees: 1. Application Icon 2. Type : 3. Size: 4. Last Modified ........... but, mysteriously, most Icons [ such as kwrite, or thunderbird ] show Type : <an old program long sinceused > - am mystified "How" did this old program become the Type: associated with almost all the Icons on the Desktop !! . . . and "How" please to edit away this irrelevance ?? thanks best regards Ellan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 22:51 +0200, ellanios82 wrote:
Hello List, when hovering Mouse pointer, over Desktop Application launcher Icon, one sees: 1. Application Icon 2. Type : 3. Size: 4. Last Modified ........... but, mysteriously, most Icons [ such as kwrite, or thunderbird ] show Type : <an old program long sinceused > - am mystified "How" did this old program become the Type: associated with almost all the Icons on the Desktop !! . . . and "How" please to edit away this irrelevance ??
You do not say what DE you are using; but according to the Free Desktop standards applications and their meta-data are discovered via ".desktop" files. Usually the global ones live in /usr/share/applications/... They can be overridden locally [per user] in ~/.local/share/applications/ <http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/> -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/11/2012 05:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 22:51 +0200, ellanios82 wrote:
Hello List, when hovering Mouse pointer, over Desktop Application launcher Icon, one sees: 1. Application Icon 2. Type : 3. Size: 4. Last Modified ........... but, mysteriously, most Icons [ such as kwrite, or thunderbird ] show Type : <an old program long sinceused > - am mystified "How" did this old program become the Type: associated with almost all the Icons on the Desktop !! . . . and "How" please to edit away this irrelevance ?? You do not say what DE you are using; but according to the Free Desktop standards applications and their meta-data are discovered via ".desktop" files. Usually the global ones live in /usr/share/applications/... They can be overridden locally [per user] in ~/.local/share/applications/
<http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/>
................ - thank you kindly : using KDE & sometimes Xfce - investigating now :) best regards Ellan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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