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Generic icon for application on Wayland KDE.

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

Reproduce the issue by running the AppImage in a KDE Wayland session and compare its Wayland app ID, desktop-file name, and icon name with the manually installed desktop file and icons. Done means the application shows its proper icon in the top corner and Alt-Tab without copying desktop integration files to the host system.

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Description

When I run my application in AppImage on KDE Wayland session, it has a generic Wayland icon in top corner and in Alt-Tab, but with a proper icon on the menu or in taskbar.

My app exports Wayland app ID, which is the same as icon name and desktop file name. It works properly outside of AppImage.

What else should I do?

Manually copying an app .desktop and icons to the host system fixes this, now the AppImage runs with the proper icon.

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