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How do I get the names in my icon theme for use with pythons appindicator module?

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How do I get the strings I can insert instead of 'gtk-execute'?

#!/usr/bin/python



import gobject

import gtk

import appindicator



if __name__ == "__main__":

    ind = appindicator.Indicator("example-simple-client", "gtk-execute",

        appindicator.CATEGORY_APPLICATION_STATUS)

    ind.set_status (appindicator.STATUS_ACTIVE)



    menu = gtk.Menu()



    for i in range(3):

        buf = "Test-undermenu - %d" % i

        menu_items = gtk.MenuItem(buf)

        menu.append(menu_items)

        menu_items.connect("activate", gtk.main_quit)

        menu_items.show()



    ind.set_menu(menu)

    gtk.main()

My answer below pretty much does it. Still it would be nice to have some python code that puts out all available icons.

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answered 1 Year ago lassrake · Accepted Answer

Simple:

import gi

gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')

from gi.repository import Gtk



icon_theme = Gtk.IconTheme()

print(icon_theme.list_icons())

The output of which is a tuple of all the icon names:

('input-gaming', 'gnome-aorta', 'stock_bottom', 'config-language', ...)

_{See also: Gtk.IconTheme.list_icons in the Gtk-3.0 docs}

If you'd like to get your icon as a GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf, you can use the load_icon method:

>>> icon_theme.load_icon("gtk-execute", 48, 0)

<GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf object at 0x7fd1689a5d80 (GdkPixbuf at 0x2ad45e0)>

If you want a filename instead, you can use the lookup_icon method:

>>> icon_theme.lookup_icon("gtk-execute", 48, 0).get_filename()

/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/actions/gtk-execute.png

Where 48 is the size of the desired icon (see also: get_icon_sizes).