Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of Documentation

Timestamp:

Nov 4, 2009, 10:55:14 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Jörg Steffens

Comment:

changed icon check discription

Documentation

@@ -53 +53 @@
 to test, if an icon is recognised by the system, act as follow:
 
- 1. copy the icon {{{example.png}}} or {{{example.svgz}}} to {{{/usr/share/pixmap/}}}
- 1. create a test directory {{{/tmp/test}}}
- 1. copy some {{{.desktop}}} files into {{{/tmp/test}}}. At least one should have the line {{{Icon=example}}}
- 1. remove icon cache by: {{{rm -r ~/.kde4/cache-*/kpc/}}}
- 1. check if icon gets displayed by: {{{konqueror /tmp/test}}}
- 1. or: {{{strace -e trace=access -f konqueror /tmp/test}}}
+{{{
+# copy the icon example.png or example.svgz to /usr/share/pixmap/
+# if available, choose the svgz image format, otherwise png. (xpm does also work)
+cp -a example.svgz /usr/share/pixmap/
+
+# create a directory for testing
+mkdir /tmp/test
+
+# copy some .desktop files to the testing directory. At least one should have the line "Icon=example"
+cp -a example_working.desktop example_testing.desktop /tmp/test
+
+# remove the users icon cache
+rm -r ~/.kde4/cache-*/kpc/
+
+# check if the icons gets displayed correctly
+strace -e trace=access -o /tmp/test/konq_icon.strace  -f konqueror /tmp/test
+
+# close konqueror
+
+# in case of problems, analyse the strace log file
+less /tmp/test/konq_icon.strace
+}}}