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    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

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  <title>Install an icon</title>

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    <title>Launch your application</title>
  </links>

  <p>Install an icon to identify your application.</p>
  
  <p>When listing an icon in a desktop file, the image must be installed in a
  standard location, given by the
  <link href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html">freedesktop.org
  Icon Theme</link> and
  <link href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html">Icon
  Naming specifications</link>. As a minimum, an application should install a
  48×48 pixel icon into <file><var>$prefix</var>/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps</file>
  in PNG format.</p>

  <p>To match with other icons, both in GNOME and other platforms, follow the
  <link href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines">Tango
  Icon Theme guidelines</link> when creating icons and application artwork.</p>
 
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