In my icewm "toolbar" config file, the following does not work:

prog Thunar Thunar thunar
prog libreoffice libreoffice-main libreoffice

Icewm won't find the icons for these applications (I think it looks only
directly under /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/pixmaps, but I'm not
sure).

So I have to place copies of the icons under ~/.icewm/icons, or put
absolute paths in the config:

prog Thunar /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/Thunar.png thunar
prog libreoffice /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/libreoffice-main.png libreoffice

It would be nice if icewm could find the icons on its own.

While some applications don't have icons under /usr/share/pixmaps,
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/SIZE/apps/ and
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps seem to be popular icon paths
(possibly encouraged by the freedesktop spec at
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html).
Even icewm has icons there!

I'm not sure what to think of the freedesktop stuff, but maybe it's
worth considering changing icewm to search these paths? Or should I
rather file a bugreport for applications which don't have icons under
/usr/share/pixmaps?

Many thanks,
Jens Stimpfle

Hallo,
* Jens Stimpfle [Wed, Aug 31 2016, 01:51:32PM]:

That is exactly what happened in the version uploaded last weekend. If
you wish to solve it quickly, edit .icewm/prefoverride and add

IconPath="/usr/share/icons/hicolor:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmaps"

Regards,
Eduard.

That indeed works with 1.3.8+mod+20160825-1 but not with the version in
jessie. There, I have to add the whole path

IconPath="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps:/usr/share/icons:/usr/share/pixmap
+s"

(and other sizes to find more icons)

Thanks,
Jens

notfound 836197 1.3.8+mod+20160825-1
thanks

Great, so let's tag it as fixed nowadays.

Best regards,
Eduard.