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There are some applications in the menu that doesn't look good, they are using only one color icon and with e-papirpus icon theme they end grey over black (with normal papirus is black over black and with dakr papirus white over black but it breajs othe rthings like pcmanfm-qt icons whichare light over light).
This are: Lxqt-about, Qlipper, Screenshot, Skanlite, Printers, Input Method, Keyboard and Mouse

Some of them could be easily be changed, for example, lxqt-about is using help-about, we could change it to hwinfo (in the .desktop in /user/share/applications)

But, skanlite and printers although there icons skanlite.svg and cups.svg are colorfull, in the menu they look monochrome, like "Symbolic" icons.
So, questions:
1.- Anyone knows how this work, that some colorfull svg icons when used in the menu are monochrome?
2.- Coudl we as a dsitribution change the without affecting others?

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hmollercl added a comment.Thu, Jul 25, 9:28 PM

we could via xdg put the modified .desktops in ~/.local/share/applications they prevale over the ones in user/share/applications so we don't modify the icons for the other versions.

hmollercl added a comment.Fri, Jul 26, 10:16 PM

Ealing this as info. I tried all the combinatiosn I figured out in https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
none wroked for me to change lxqt-about icon.
The only that worked at this moment is putting a .desktop in ./local/share/applications that uses another icon

wxl added a comment.Sat, Jul 27, 12:23 PM

I advise consulting the Freedesktop mailing list and see if we can get some more clarity on how to make the override on a per icon basis.

hmollercl added a comment.EditedWed, Aug 7, 7:34 AM

So, papirus won't make the change because this "devices" (scanner, printer, desktop) icons in 16x16 are sometimes used in file manager.
So we have to fix it on our own.
The easiest solution is to crete the same .desktop via xdg in ~/.local/share/applications but with different icons.
Those .desktop override the ones in /usr/share/applications.

Here are the .desktop if someone want to try, remember to put it in ~/.local/share/applications/ and restart the panel

lxqt-about.desktop1 KBDownload

system-config-printer.desktop515 BDownload

org.kde.skanlite.desktop6 KBDownload

changes are:
for skanlite instead of Icon=scanner:
Icon=skanlite

for system-config-printer instead of Icon=printer:
Icon=cups

for about lxqt instead of Icon=help-about:
Icon=/usr/share/lxqt/graphics/helix_60.png

For this one we could put the defined icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/...

wxl added a subscriber: tsimonq2.Wed, Aug 7, 4:01 PM

Dumb question and maybe @tsimonq2 can help here. We usually install to system directories rather than users. How do we install this and how can we guarantee everyone will have it? /etc/skel???

hmollercl added a comment.Thu, Aug 8, 8:31 AM

mmm, I thought there was xdg for that, like xdg/autostart, but apparently it isn't...

hmollercl added a comment.Fri, Aug 9, 9:26 AM

Finally!!
puting the .desktops in /usr/share/Lubuntu/applications/ worked!! (XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/)
Here are all the .desktop I modified in a zip. Could you please tell me what you think before uploading them?

applications.zip9 KBDownload