identifying the graphic elemen in an icon [Closed]

[rodgoslin]

I have an icon on my desktop, that I'd like to copy onto another machine. The icon in question is a stylised tree, for an application of some family tree software. It's not the official icon for the task (there isn't one), but one I found a long time ago. Is there any way of identifying this icon graphic, so that I can find it and copy it off. The properties for the icon are no help, I can change it to another,in 'properties' but only from the list. It may be a .svg file, but a search revealed more than 3,000 .svg files, and there's no reason for it being labelled in any recognisable file name. Looking for 'tree.svg' is unlikely to get me far.

[sturmvogel]

You could search on the homepage of this programm for it (I assume it is no official package from Mageia repo).

Or open the standard icon folders, switch on preview/big icons and search visually for it if you don't know the icon name.

[morgano]

Open the .desktop file in a text editor.
In the line starting "Icon=" you see the icon filename, maybe complete path.
If it is in a standard location it seems no path nor extension is shown, but now easier to search.
If everything fail, take a screenshot of it...

[rodgoslin]

Thanks, morgano. That was exactly right. It was, in fact in the directory that held all the family tree data. Which should make it a doddle copying it over. This is something I should definitely remember!

Cheers, Rod Goslin

[jiml8]

I maintain a file called Jims_Howtos.txt, which contains all kinds of odds and ends that I will never remember but might need to know in the future.

Over the years, it has become fairly large, but I still refer to it at least every week for some piece of information that I don't recall.

Just a suggestion...

[rodgoslin]

I've tried that, but forgot where I'd put the book!