On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 23:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> writes:
> Supported formats for themed icons are xpm, png and svg. Thus, if you
> install the icon below /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ it should be in one of
> those formats. If you install it in /usr/share/pixmaps, it can really be
> anything, but traditionally, that directory is for xpms. In the desktop
> file, the icon should be either specified as a full path (including
> extension) or as an icon name (without extension), the latter being
> preferred.
I guess the appropriate question for this list is "where is all that
documented?"
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
is the spec describing .desktop files
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
is the spec describing icon themes