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Foggalong / hardcode-fixer

Fixes Hardcoded Icons
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Is this project still developed? #378

Closed tiotrom closed 4 years ago

tiotrom commented 4 years ago

I am wondering if it is worth reporting broken packages. I don't see any activity for the past 2-3 years....

Foggalong commented 4 years ago

Please report them yes! It's been a while since we saw any significant development to the script itself but hoping to get all the open app requests included in the database this week :)

Foggalong commented 4 years ago

That said, if your distros package hasn't been updated for 3 years it is out of date. Last major update was a year an half ago in January 2019.

tiotrom commented 4 years ago

Wonderful! I am testing apps for our custom TROMjaro OS, hundreds of them, since we also make custom icons for them, so I will keep reporting them. I am so happy to hear that you will update it! And yes I meant this packages didn't seem to be updated in 2-3 years but I meant 2 or so, looking at the last update in github. Or like you said a year and a half ago. Ok, thank you very much for your work and I will keep reporting such apps. Cheers!

tiotrom commented 4 years ago

I have a question tho: say we have this app that uses an icon from /opt/bitmask/icon.png. How is this going to be fixed? We make an icon called bitmask.svg and add it to our icons pack, but how is this script aware of what name/icon to use? I don't understand exactly and I want to make sure we report correctly and do our job correctly.

Foggalong commented 4 years ago

how is this script aware of what name/icon to use?

Quite simply, the script isn't aware! All this script does is un-hardcode the launchers by changing Icon=/path/to/app.png to Icon=app and copying the original icon file from /path/to/app.png to the standard freedesktop location for icons so that the system picks it up. Any themes which have an icon called app will then appear for the hardcoded launcher. There's more information about this in the wiki! :slightly_smiling_face: