Obtaining application icons in Linux

[chaoticbob]

Hi,

So QFileIconProvider works pretty well on Windows for grabbing icons executables, but seems not to do so on Linux. At least not on GNOME. Can anyone recommend a general way of asking the window manager or perhaps a query against a file of some type to obtain the icon for executables on Linux?

Thanks.

[wysota]

The answer is not trivial as each desktop system stores its icons elsewhere. For instance for KDE you would look into /usr/share/icons/default[.kde4]/32x32/mimetypes.

[chaoticbob]

Thanks.

I don't mind it not being trivial. Just needed a starting point - which you provided.