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28 /*! \example widgets/applicationicon
30 \title Application Icon Example
32 \brief The Application Icon example shows how to add an application icon to a
35 \image appicon_screenshot.png The icon on a Nokia XPressMusic 5800
37 \section1 Creating an icon for Maemo
39 Maemo expects the icon of an application to be a 64x64 PNG image file. The
40 file name of the icon should be the same as the executable with a \c .png
41 extension. You also need a \c .desktop file that gives the window manager
42 hints about the application, such as name, type and icon.
44 \quotefile examples/widgets/applicationicon/applicationicon.desktop
46 The \c Icon field should also contain the name of the executable. On the
47 device, application icons are stored in the
48 \c /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps directory
49 and desktop files in the \c /usr/share/applications/hildon directory.
51 \section1 Creating an icon for Symbian
53 Symbian uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG Tiny 1.1+) to render
54 application icons in the application menu. Therefore icons could be
55 created manually with a text editor, since SVG files are plain text with
56 XML syntax, but usually you would use a vector graphics program that is
57 able to output SVG files. Popular graphics programs such as Adobe
58 Illustrator or Inkscape are able to do so.
60 For best results, the icon should be created on a 44x44 pixel canvas.
61 Otherwise the image might be scaled in unexpected ways.
63 Once you have created your icon, make sure that it is stored according to
64 the SVG-Tiny 1.1+ standard. Inkscape, for instance, is not able to save
65 images that way, but there are tools that can convert general SVG files
66 into the Tiny format. For instance, the svg2svgt tool that is bundled with
67 Symbian 3rd and 5th editon SDKs under the folder s60tools can do this
68 conversion to some extent. Another tool to convert SVG to SVG Tiny is SVG
71 \section1 Adding the icons to the project
73 Edit the .pro file and specify the ICON variable for the symbian target.
74 For Maemo, we need to add that the \c .desktop and icon file should be
77 \quotefile examples/widgets/applicationicon/applicationicon.pro
79 Currently, Qt Creator doesn't include the icon and desktop files in the
80 application package for Maemo, merely the executable file is included. As a
81 workaround for this, the files can be added manually in the Projects tab.
82 In the "Create Package" build step for the Maemo target, the \c .desktop
83 file and icon can be added to be a part of the package contents.
84 Unfortunately, these additions are only stored as a part of the
85 \c .pro.user file. This issue will be resolved in a future release of
88 \image appicon_packagecontents.png Manual addition of files to the "Create Package" build step