MeeGo App Icon on Home screen.

[HellStranger]

Hi!

Can someone help me? I want to deploy a custom icon of my MeeGo app on the device Home screen. I have a png file with resolution 80x80. I have selected this file in the "Projects" tab in QtCreator in the dialog "Add Launcher Icon...". Then I have built a package and have deployed it on the device. But the device display a green circle on the device Home screen instead of my icon. But the device correctly display the my app icon for the App Manager. It is also a PNG file but his resolution is 64x64 pixels.

What is the reason?

[gnuton]

Hi,
Have you updated your desktop file?
Your source code contains a file named application.desktop. Well that's file is the shortcut to your app.
It shows the icon in the device home screen.

If you want to display your icon, you have to update the Icon field as follow
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/80x80/apps/myIcon.png

[HellStranger]

Yes. But the desktop file name is MyAppName_harmattan.desktop. I have updated already Icon field in this file. But it hasn't effect.

[vineet.jain]

May be you need to mention the desktop file in the .pro file:

# Desktop file

desktop.files = MyAppName_harmattan.desktop
desktop.path = /usr/share/applications
INSTALLS += desktop

[HellStranger]

This is snippet of my .pro file:

contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan) {
    target.path = /usr/bin/roadregulations

    desktopfile.files = $${TARGET}_harmattan.desktop
    desktopfile.path = /usr/share/applications

    INSTALLS += target desktopfile
}

[vineet.jain]

If possible then see if the icon you have changed is actually present at the specified path or not.You can download some file manager app for Meego.

[vuorisalmi]

This is snippet of my .pro file:

Are you sure your icon file is installed as part of the application? You should have a similar entry in the .pro file for the icon as you have for the .desktop file.

As mentioned in an earlier post, the 80x80 icons should be installed into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/80x80/apps/.