launcher icons

[Jacek Rakowiecki]

On sob, 2006-02-18 at 21:07 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > Whenever I create a new launcher, if the icons presented are not suitable
> > > I click on the browse icon, but every icon in other directories is greyed
> > > out no matter whether it's a xpm or png. How do you pick an icon from
> > > another directory? They are also presented in list form rather than the
> > > thumbnails that show in the original directory.
> > > Bug? Feature?
> > >
> > 
> > there may be a better way to do this, but what I have done it the past is
> > find the icon I want and then
> > 
> > #sudo cp  /usr/share/groovy/image.png    /usr/share/pixmaps
> > 
> > and if necessary (?)
> > 
> > #sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/pixmaps/image.png
> > 
> > then I can use it.
> > 
> 
>    Yeah, that works, but shouldn't the icon browser allow you to pick from elsewhere? and showthem as thumbs rather
> than a list, and not grey them out ?

I think it's a bug. You can use icons from other locations, but you
can't set them from gui.

Find the launcher's file in ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers and add
a line:
Icon=/path/to/your/icon

After restarting session, you should see your new icon.