Install SVG icon to scalable/apps

[yeKcim]

Under Linux : Inkscape does not install an SVG icon to scalable/apps. Meaning that applications such as GNOME Do, which needs larger sizes than 48x48, will use a scaled up bitmap, not a pretty sight.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Tested on Ubuntu 9.04, Inkscape 0.46 in /usr and rev. 22218 in /usr/local.
There's nothing in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps, but inkscape.svg is installed in /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ (probably due to local build).
Does someone know if 0.47 "packaged version" installs the scalable icon in the right place?

[Sven Arvidsson (sa)]

AFAICT Inkscape does not follow any of the normal procedures for installing icons such as:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons

Current SVN still seems to prefer to use pixmaps:

 appicondir = $(datadir)/pixmaps
 appicon_DATA = inkscape.png

[jimmac (jimmac)]

Another downside of this is that the included app icon always has a precedence over a system icon theme. Inkscape really should install its app icons into the apps context of the hicolor theme.

[jimmac (jimmac)]

And while fixing the way the icon is installed, please consider using an icon that is sharp, pixel precise in the smaller sizes. Attaching one.