Brian Masinick
@noClue: I cannot guarantee that I can “say what is here EXACTLY going on”, but I was looking at logos on one of my distributions just this morning and the one thing I noticed was that the /usr/share/applications are NOT consistently populated with icons, especially when you look at different “styles” and sizes.
In the /usr/share/applications directory in the Xubuntu directory, for example, the desktop files, such as chromium-browser.desktop on that system, contain “localized” entries for the names, descriptions, and locations – for example, the Name, Generic Name, Comment, Exec string that points to the executable image, Icon that points to the location of the application icon, etc. So this desktop entry is the file that identifies what gets put on the system menu. Whether there are usable icons that can be entered into this file, plus the accuracy of the information in this file has a great deal to do with what the menu entries look like in English and in other locales as well.
It appears that the locale you are using here is not completely “translated”; in other words, not all entries are there for the locale that you are using, or something got “jumbled” or altered.
We have a similar layout in antiX. Again, some applications are well-produced and come equipped in such a way that when we build them, we can provide everything needed. But if that isn’t the case, it either makes it necessary that someone on the team (knowledgeable enough to do so) creates the entries, and if not, you end up seeing entries that are either missing an icon, a description, or more, depending on what is available in the icon folders and what is specified in the desktop file for each application.
I hope that at least explains what work needs to be done to make an entry “look right” every time we add an application. Anyone who knows more than this can by all means clarify or better explain what I’ve attempted to answer in this note.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Brian Masinick.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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