On 14/10-2009 15:50 Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've been googling all day to find a way to use a custom icon for your > > Plasmoid. > > > > I found the following snippet in http://code.google.com/p/gmail- > > plasmoid/source/diff?spec=svn22&r=22&format=side&path=/trunk/contents/cod > >e/ main.py > > icon to be shown in the widgets explorer, icon of te popupapplet, or..?
Actually both :-) I haven't gotten around to making it a popup applet since I ran into some problems. > > > # Install icon if required > > kdehome = str(KGlobal.dirs().localkdedir()) > > if not os.path.exists(kdehome+"share/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg"): > > try: > > shutil.copy(self.package().path() + > > "contents/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg", > > kdehome+"share/icons/gmail-plasmoid.svg") > > except: > > print "Problem copying icon" > > print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0] > > > > Is this really the best way to do it? > > I think that ideally you should just place your icon somewhere under > > contents/icons, put it in the metadata.desktop file under "Icon" and it > > should be recognized by Plasma. > > > > BTW: The file hierarchy of a Plasmoid isn't really well documented > > anywhere that I can find. If anyone can explain it to me I will be happy > > to document it on TechBase. > -- Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen Thomas Olsen _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
