Can not (fully) change applications Icon (macOS)

[johnallen3d]

I've changed the applications icon (no offense, I like to tinker) and the change is reflected in Finder, Spotlight etc. however not in the Dock or the Meta + Tab UI. I've made the chage by replacing the icon via the "Get Info" dialog as well as copying over /Applications/qutebrowser/Content/Resources/qutebrowser.icns with the same results. I've even gone so far as to try the steps listed in this Gist and serveral of the comments.

This is a shot in the dark but I thought I'd ask, is it possible the original icon is being set elsewhere?

Version info

qutebrowser v1.3.1
Git commit: ac29c579f-dirty (2018-05-29 11:14:01 +0200)
Backend: QtWebEngine (Chromium 61.0.3163.140)

CPython: 3.6.5
Qt: 5.10.0
PyQt: 5.10

sip: 4.19.8
colorama: 0.3.9
pypeg2: 2.15
jinja2: 2.10
pygments: 2.2.0
yaml: 3.12
cssutils: 1.0.2 $Id$
attr: 17.4.0
PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets: yes
PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets: no
pdf.js: no
sqlite: 3.20.1
QtNetwork SSL: Secure Transport, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Style: QWindowsStyle
Platform: Darwin-17.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit, 64bit
Frozen: True
Imported from /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/qutebrowser
Qt library executable path: /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/PyQt5/Qt/libexec, data path: /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/MacOS/PyQt5/Qt
OS Version: 10.13.5, x86_64

[toofar]

I don't know mac but the changed ones sound like they are coming from the installed application metadata and the ones that aren't are coming from the live process. Here we tell Qt to set the window icon, I'm not sure if that is what we are looking for but I suspect so. I don't know enough about the proccess of turning qutebrowser into an installable application for mac to know where those pngs end up, if they are even packaged, but if you can find any files from icons/ in the installed files it might be worth trying to switch them out.

[johnallen3d]

Thanks for the response @toofar! I've looked around the contents of the packaged qutebrowser.app but do not see the icons in question anywhere. I'll have to read up a little bit on Qt (and maybe libqsvgicon.dylib) later to see if I can understand the process better.

[jgkamat]

Maybe we could add an option to configure the icon with a path to a new one, similar to the existing settings for setting the titlebar. I think that there is a "qt resource system" and that's where the icon is stored. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/resources.html Depending on the packaging, it could be inside the binary? You could try using 'locate' with '--regex' to find the file by searching on the entire filename.

[johnallen3d]

I have tried digging further through /Applications/qutebrowser.app/ but am unable to locate another icon file to replace. Perhaps it's compiled into an archive of some sort or cached somewhere by macOS (though I've tried clearing caches).

It does seem like Qt is providing two ways of setting the icon for a package. Here they discuss configuring the main icns file which is typically what you'd replace to change an icon and is present at /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/Resources/qutebrowser.icns and defined in /Applications/qutebrowser.app/Contents/Info.plist. They also mention QWindow::setWindowIcon() here (and other places). I believe now, as @toofar theorized, this is what is setting the Dock icon. If it was possible to configure that as @jgkamat suggests or even have it point to ./Contents/Resources/qutebrowser.icns that would be great.

Obviously this isn't a high priority "issue", I appreciate you comments and consideration!

[eggcaker]

@johnallen3d did you success chnage the app icon ?

[johnallen3d]

Sorry @eggcaker, no, I did not have any luck.