Icon customization

[oredaze]

It would be very nice if we could customize the application icons. Right now there are a lot of things which have no icon (thus showing a generic white window icon) or the icon is ugly.

A sensible approach would perhaps be for skippy-xd to search the icons from your currently active icon set; from a specified directory or from ~/.icons. Then it would match the WM_CLASS to the file name. For example right now st (the terminal emulator) doesn't have an icon. It's class is st-256color, so the icon name should be st-256color.png.

[felixfung]

Sorry I don't quite understand? I thought if there are no applicable icons then no icon is shown, rather than generic white window icon? Can you please share screenshot?

[oredaze]

As you can see discord and st have generic icon. I would like to change the other two as well.

[dreamcat4]

I have seen this sort of issue in [some] DEs... that certain category or type of program does not have "good" or so-called "known" or "valid" icon. Depending on wider system environment....

For example here (in KDE Plasma). I can open Discord (as a flatpak). And the application's icon does display correctly.

So the recommendation (i encourage). Is to try some other program. To display open application icons. (for example like cairo dock, or plank, or others). To see that the issue is not specific, not related to skippy-xd program.

And then solve the issue on the wider system. --> it should then also become fixed within skippy program

[oredaze]

Plank can be controlled by editing the .desktop files. That works fine. There is an other program like skippy called "alttab", it uses your current icon set. That works fine too. I can change the icons on those programs. But I don't know how to change skippy's icons. What files does it read anyway?

[felixfung]

Skippy uses _NET_WM_ICON. Since this is a cosmetic issue (doesn't affect usability) it will be low priority feature request.