How to set my application's desktop icon for Linux: KDE, Gnome etc?

Question

I have a cross platform program that runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh. My windows version has an Icon but I don\'t know how to make have one for my Linux build. Is there a s

Answer 1

KDE community with it's KDE 4 series started to use CMake as a build system. They developed a CMake macro that knows how to set an icon for your application regardles of the platform (windows (embedded in exe), mac (.app bundles), linux (.desktop files) etc.)

Maybe you can use it.