Re: [AD] Linux Icons

["Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Every line there is blatantly ripped from SDL... including comments that
aren't appropriate. Needs some TLC before committing, at least.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trent Gamblin [mailto:trent@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: January 1, 2015 12:41 AM
To: 'Allegro Development'
Subject: Re: [AD] Linux Icons

No, but I just now got it working. Now I just have to figure out which stuff
is important, or should I just include it all? New unformatted patch
attached.

-----Original Message-----
From: SiegeLordEx [mailto:slabode@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: January 1, 2015 12:24 AM
To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [AD] Linux Icons

On 12/31/2014 11:00 PM, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> One thing I'd like to get fixed before 5.1.9 is icons on Linux.
> al_set_display_icon works on many WMs but not on Unity (arguably the 
> most popular WM.) On Unity you have to have a .desktop file to have an 
> icon in alt-tab and in the taskbar. Fine. But when I create a 
> .desktop, I still get no icon.
>
> I'm using the game Dustforce as a reference for a game that has an 
> icon. I copied their .desktop files exactly only changing the name of 
> the
game.
> After running xprop on my game and theirs there are some differences. 
> With the attached patch, most of those differences are gone, at least 
> the ones that look significant.

I'm confused, does this patch fix the taskbar issue?

-SL

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