icon for snap

Renato Filho renato.filho at canonical.com
Thu Dec 8 13:38:44 UTC 2016


Right now, I am putting the icon and the desktop file into
"<app-root-dir>/setup/gui/[app.desktop | icon.*]".

This will show the icon into the store. But as Didier mentioned sergio
has plans to restore the "icon" and a new field for the destkop file.

Cheers,
Renato

2016-12-08 10:30 GMT-03:00 Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com>:
> Le 08/12/2016 à 14:18, Jenny Murphy a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>
> Hey Jenny
>>  In the older version of snapcraft (1.1.0) I used the icon keyword in
>> the yaml file to specify the icon for my .snap.
>> It seems that this is deprecated in snapcraft 2.22.1 :
>>
>> DEPRECATED: 'icon' defined in snapcraft.yaml. Look at
>> https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/docs/metadata.md#snap-icon
>> for more information
>>
>
> From what I know (CCing Sergio to confirm), it's going to make a big
> come back :)
> It's currently only set by convention,  but if the come back is soon, I
> would suggest to wait for it (you can set the icon meanwhile as well on
> myapps.developer.ubuntu.com website for your snap).
>
> And yes, unfortunately, the link doesn't point to anything valid. Thanks
> for the notice!
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
>
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