TC 4.1 Icons Not Displaying in JWM

[SamK]

As shown in the attached screen shot...

The executable name in .desktop Exec= is not in sync with the name of the icon file.  It appears similar to this topic http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11984.0.html

[curaga]

Not sure if making n symlinks, one for each base gui, is desirable. Robert?

[roberts]

As I did not compile the latest jwm build I can only go on what I originally did way back when jwm was in the base.
That being noicons was purposely choosen as a compile time option, .i.e.,

 --disable-icons --disable-png --disable-xpm --disable-jpeg

This was done to keep size of jwm  to a minimum. However noions was not truly supported in jwm, Which I take as a bug in jwm. If you are going to offer a noicons compile time option then it should be supported throughout.

I am not a user of JWM and do not follow its development. Nor did I compile this latest version of jwm.  If icons are now desired throughtout then such will need to be added in the interface files for this extension.

[curaga]

This is not something that can be configured in jwm by the interface files I believe - the runtime icon is either given by the app, or searched based on the executable name (WM_NAME).

[roberts]

Me thinks that in an interface file, making the link based on freedeskop icon specification and changing the icon search path in .jwmrc, one could accomplish this task. Instead I am asked to not to fully use the freedesktop icon spec to accomodate an extension. An extension that was specifically requested not to use icons! Tail wagging the dog. Oh well, so is the life of a distro maintainer. Violates the rule that the base should not have to be adjusted to accomodate a single extension.

[curaga]

Yes, I didn't think of that. Will do that once 4.2 is out.

[roberts]

No need I have accomodated this request.