Applications and Geodes: 2 Creating Icons

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Every geode can have an icon associated with it. Typically, only applications will have special icons; other geodes (libraries and drivers) generally use one of the system icons or the icon of the application they're primarily used by.

An application's icon is stored in two places: It is defined and stored within the application's extended attributes in its .GEO file. It is also stored in a database file maintained by the UI, called the token database .

The GEOS development kit includes an icon editor tool so you can easily create icons of various color and resolution characteristics and install them into your applications.


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