Icon Request: MATLAB

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Icon Request: MATLAB

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 5 comments

It would be great to have a MATLAB (developed by Mathworks) icon. Currently it's the only one on my favourites bar without your excellent theme. Unfortunately, MATLAB isn't installed via a package manager so the missingicon.py script doesn't find the icon. However, an image search of 'matlab icon' shows the correct one. Cheers!

Answer 1 · 2018-06-13T08:52:25.000Z

Hi,
thanks for your request. MATLAB is actually themed, but the problem is MATLAB doesn't provide the .desktop file for generic icon theme. You need to copy the matlab.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and edit the line icon=/some/full/path/matlab to icon=matlab.

This will work.

Answer 2 · 2018-06-19T07:01:17.000Z

hi, can you plz confirm if it is solved?

Answer 3 · 2018-06-19T07:08:48.000Z

Hi, my computer is currently being repaired, I’ll test it out once I get it back

Answer 4 · 2018-08-23T19:32:01.000Z

Hello,
Sorry for the very long delay. Where can I find the matlab.desktop file?

Answer 5 · 2018-08-25T06:38:03.000Z

Hi,
That's hard to tell, as it will depend on your installation. You can check:

cd /
find . -name matlab.desktop

or manually check /usr/local/applications or /usr/share/applications

But, if this is already in your path, you may try to put this in your ~/.local/share/applications/:

Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=matlab
Name=Matlab
Icon=matlab
Categories=Development