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DarkSkies is offline DarkSkies
2012-01-30 , 04:24
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#1035
Originally Posted by rentboy View Post
I've added home screen shortcuts for websites, but the icon generated is a tiny screenshot of the web page. Usually ends up being a white blob with some tiny type visible. (ie: yelp, google reader.)

I'd like to swap out the icons with ones that I create, but I can't find where the icons exist.. or if they do.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
The thing is that Mobile Safari does not use favicon.ico but looks in the site's CSS code for "iphone friendly" PNG graphics and uses them to make the bookmark icon. Such an icon looks good (e.g. try bookmarking bbc.co.uk), but iphone icon-ready code is rather rare.

The browser stores its bookmark PNGs in
/home/user/.grob/l/

The desktop bookmark shortcuts are kept here:
/home/user/.local/share/applications/ as browser-*.desktop

.desktop files are simple text files. You can edit them using nano.

This means there are two ways to fix an icon: 1) you can simply replace an appropriate PNG from */.grob/l/ or 2) edit an appropriate .desktop so a bookmark uses a PNG of your choice.

Now, you can find a new icon or make one yourself, see here for photoshop (and not only) templates:
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resou...templates.html
Last edited by DarkSkies; 2012-01-30 at 04:26.
 

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