App creator's own icon for the drop-down menu

[mahtiankka]

This is more of a suggestion than a problem. I installed the convert-file-format action and it had a strange icon in the dropdown menu. When I fixed the png image I couldn't get it to change to another one. I soon realized that the dropdown only works with gtk names and default icons.

I finally got my own icon working. I converted icon.png to an svg image and copied it to my home directory in the .icons directory. I changed the name to Icon-Name=convert-image-format (according to the applet/svg filename).

Idea: Would it be possible to make a small change to the Nemo Action installation script? If the author had made an svg image in the program, it would be automatically copied to the icons directory. Or if the application has a nemo-action-icon folder, the svg image inside it would be automatically copied.

I have nothing but a working concept. I don't know how to code this in Nemo, so I hope someone would be interested.

[Jopp-gh]

In my experience, PNG and SVG are both valid.

If you want, you can create a Nemo action to launch a bash script and convent pictures into PNG/SVG, then rename and move them to ~/.icons. Finally, make sure to edit the Nemo action to check if your icon name is correct. Next, restart Nemo to activate your Nemo action.