A few Lubuntu Menu things...

[Israel]

Ah... you sent this when I was typing my e-mail.
I am glad to hear others are working on fixing this issue!
Are you working on making symbolic links, or some automated script
(kinda like what I am attempting), or something totally different?
Eric has sorted out the main 2 issues.
1. bad  Icon= path
2. xpm sized too large

I can only see 3 (realistically)possible solutions.
1. script to fix the icons
2. symbolic links to the real icons
3. automated conversion and fixing of desktop files (possibly on a
larger Ubuntu community scale... not just Lubuntu)

I guess it might be time to find out if Xfce/Gnome/Unity has this
problem, though wrong icon paths will affect every respin, I suppose...
if not there may be a solution in another DE already for the wrong icon
paths.  Though badly sized Icons can only be fixed by resizing them (or
forcing the menu to show them at a certain size)

It seems like to fix every icon field one would have to work for
Canonical to be able to make a change of that magnitude across all
however many thousands of packages in the repos.
It would be very nice to have it done for Trusty.

On 12/29/2013 11:40 AM, Rafael Laguna wrote:
> We're trying to clean that mess too. A lot of programs, coming from
> old versions of Gnome, have icon definitions pointing to weird paths.
> The ideal rule is just naming the icon, with path  or extension, just
> its name, and obviously putting an icon at the apps section of the theme.
>
> Xombrero, Openbox itself or GColor2 are examples of bad icon naming.
>
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> --
> Rafael Laguna
> Lubuntu Artwork Team
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> 2013/12/29 Eric Bradshaw <ericbradshaw at computers4christians.org
> <mailto:ericbradshaw at computers4christians.org>>
>
>     I hope the details below helps someone figure some things out
>     about no icons, blank icons and icons that are too big. And as
>     mentioned previously by Aere; there is quite a bit of variation in
>     the way developers tackle the icon "problem." I looked a little
>     deeper and tried some experimenting with apps installed through
>     LSC starting with the letter "E."
>
>     For the application called eFTE, which shows no icon (default icon
>     in menu, blank on the desktop); there are 4 icons in usr/share/pixmaps
>     efte16x16.xpm
>     efte32x32.xpm
>     efte48x48.xpm
>     efte64x64.xpm
>     This is referenced in the shortcut as Icon=efte
>
>     I copied the shortcut to the desktop and changed just the Icon=
>     line to reference the path to the 32x32 icon
>     Icon=usr/share/pixmaps/efte32x32.xpm
>     This had absolutely no effect. I tried each of the other sizes as
>     well; 16x16, 48x48 and 64x64. None had any effect - still a blank
>     icon.
>     I also tried moving the Icon= line to the top of the shortcut,
>     just below [Desktop Entry]; nothing.
>     I then moved the Icon= line above [Desktop Entry] and this time
>     after saving, the default icon was shown.
>     Next, I deleted all but the 64x64px icon in usr/share/pixmaps and
>     renamed it simply efte.xpm. I then moved the Icon= line back down
>     below the Exec= line, but left the path. The icon went back to
>     being blank. Finally, I removed the path, so it was now
>     Icon=efte.xpm (only the 64x64px icon still remained in
>     usr/share/pixmaps and the icon's name is simply efte.xpm) and the
>     icon showed on the desktop! I (tested to make sure the shortcut
>     still worked from the desktop to open eFTE) then replaced the
>     shortcut in /usr/share/applications and the icon showed in the
>     menu too! The menu now showed a large icon for eFTE; 4 times the
>     size it should have been. Next (because I had really deleted all
>     but the 64x64px version) I halved the size of the icon in GIMP and
>     overwrote it in /usr/share/pixmaps. And because it was still
>     showing the 4x size in the menu, I entered lxpanelctl restart in
>     LXTerminal and the icon had shrunk to twice the size as normal -
>     the 32x32px size. I halved it again to 16x16px and again entered
>     lxpanelctl restart in LXTerminal and the icon then finally showed
>     in the menu at a normal size.
>
>     In the case of Emila Pinball, which shows a large icon (roughly 4x
>     normal size); there is only 1 icon in the same location
>     pinball.xpm
>     This icon is 32x32px, 72 dpi.
>     This is referenced in the shortcut as Icon=pinball.xpm
>
>     emesene, which shows a normal icon; has both an .xpm (at 32x32px)
>     and a .png (at 96x96px) in usr/share/pixmaps
>     emesene.xpm
>     emesene.png
>     Referenced in the shortcut as Icon=emesene
>
>     ELKI, which shows a normal icon; only one icon resides in
>     usr/share/pixmaps
>     elki-icon.png
>     It is also  32x32px, 72 dpi
>     In the shortcut as Icon=elki-icon
>
>     Hope some of this sheds some light.
>     Eric
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