Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Step 6: Creating Icons for the Application


Note –

For an example of creating the icon files for an application, see Step 6 of Example of Creating a Registration Package.


The desktop provides default icons for actions, data types, and application groups. However, you will probably want to create unique icons for the application.

Icons are placed in the directory app_root/dt/appconfig/icons/language.

Icons Required for the Desktop

The application uses these icon images on the desktop:

Table 5–2 Naming Conventions for Icon Files

Size 

Pixel Dimensions 

Bitmap Name 

Pixmap Name 

tiny 

16 by 16 

basename.t.bm

basename.t.pm

medium 

32 by 32 

basename.m.bm

basename.m.pm

large 

48 by 48 

basename.l.bm

basename.l.pm

If you do not provide bitmap files, the desktop maps the color specifications of the pixmap files into black and white. However, this mapping may not produce the appearance you want.

For more information about icons, see Icon Image Files.