N900 icon design

[shornsey]

Hi,

I need to design an application icon and I'm not sure of format/sizing on N900. Can anyone point me to documentation? Or know the specs for an icon for the application menu, application catalogue list etc.

Thanks, Stu

[divanov]

http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...ributing#Icons

[Symbian_Neil]

Hi,

I need to design an application icon and I'm not sure of format/sizing on N900. Can anyone point me to documentation? Or know the specs for an icon for the application menu, application catalogue list etc.

Thanks, Stu

Please Avoid multiposting: http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=193156

Thanks

[shornsey]

Thanks for that, so in the app catalogue icons are 48x48 png.

I couldn't spot it the documentation but I believe the icon size for applications installed in the application menu are 64x64 png.

[divanov]

Thanks for that, so in the app catalogue icons are 48x48 png.

I couldn't spot it the documentation but I believe the icon size for applications installed in the application menu are 64x64 png.

Yes, task launcher shows icons of size 64x64.

[davidmct]

follow up question. using Qt SDK on windows how can you get an application icon to be displayed in the task launcher on the N900. I've managed to get an icon displayed in the applications list and to install optified.

The maemo.org MADDE packaging and QT application packaging articles are useful though conflicting in parts but the suggestions don't seem to work.

My desktop file is :

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.2
Type=Application
Name=CameraDOF
Exec=/opt/cameradof/bin/cameradof
Icon=cameradof
X-Maemo-Category=Main
X-Window-Icon=cameradof
X-Window-Icon-Dimmed=cameradof
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-Osso-Service=cameradof
XB-Maemo-Icon-26:
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUg
..... =

My control file (part) is:

Source: cameradof
Section: user/utilities
Priority: extra
Maintainer: XXXXXXXXXXX <XXXXXXXXXXXXX>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libqt4-dev (>= 4.6.1)
Standards-Version: 3.7.3

Package: cameradof
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibsepends}, ${miscepends}
Description: Camera depth of field calculator
camera depth of field calculator
allows setting up of shooting situation.
XB-Maemo-Display-Name: CameraDOF
XB-Maemo-Icon-26:
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSU
..... =

As far as I can tell all the icons etc are installed as defined in my pro file...

PRO file extract:

unix {
#VARIABLES
PREFIX = /opt/cameradof
BINDIR = $$PREFIX/bin
DATADIR =$$PREFIX/data
IMGDIR = /usr/share/icons/hicolor
MAEMODIR = /usr/share/applications/hildon

DEFINES += DATADIR=\\\"$$DATADIR\\\" PKGDATADIR=\\\"$$PKGDATADIR\\\"

#MAKE INSTALL

INSTALLS += target desktop service icon64 icon48

target.path =$$BINDIR

data.path = $$DATADIR

desktop.path = $$MAEMODIR
desktop.files += ../data/$${TARGET}.desktop

service.path = $$DATADIR/dbus-1/services
service.files += ../data/$${TARGET}.service

icon64.path = $$IMGDIR/64x64/apps
icon64.files += ../data/64x64/$${TARGET}.png

icon48.path = $$IMGDIR/48x48/apps
icon48.files += ../data/48x48/$${TARGET}.png

}

I use MADDE terminal build 2010-06-14 on Windows 7 to do the debian packaging.

Your excellent support and helpo much appreciated as usual.

BR David