how can make visible an application's pic thumbnail in panel instead of a silly gear? [Solved]

[Dennis-TW]

A little help on how can I do it?

By using MX Package Installer

Go to the 'MX Test Repo' tab and search for 'qbittorrent'

The version in the Test Repo is 4.6.3 whereas the one in the Main Repo is 4.5.3

[harrykar]

A little help on how can I do it?

By using MX Package Installer

Go to the 'MX Test Repo' tab and search for 'qbittorrent'

The version in the Test Repo is 4.6.3 whereas the one in the Main Repo is 4.5.3

Thank you, There are also a qb 'enhanced' kind in version 4.6.0 you know what is it?

[harrykar]

Right now noticed that Mx Package installer shows up also a gear (instead of an icon) in Taskchanger/Windows Buttons panel's area with a context menu identical(i.e. has only a 'remove' item instead of a bunch of items that other open apps have) as qb's appimage :(
So to conclude till now seems that:

1. a gear icon with reduced context menu in Taskchanger/Windows Buttons panel's area isn't because an app is from our repo or not
2. applications out of our repo (when opened of course) prefer put their icons in notifications panel's area(i.e. bottom) instead of Taskchanger/Windows Buttons panel's area(i.e. up) whereas apps from our repo prefer the other way around

[Dennis-TW]

Thank you, There are also a qb 'enhanced' kind in version 4.6.0 you know what is it?

According to the official qBittorrent forum, the enhanced version one is a fork of qBittorrent, aimed at the Chinese/Eastern market.

Unless specifically needed, it is suggested is stick with the main version.

[harrykar]

Thank you, There are also a qb 'enhanced' kind in version 4.6.0 you know what is it?

According to the official qBittorrent forum, the enhanced version one is a fork of qBittorrent, aimed at the Chinese/Eastern market.

Unless specifically needed, it is suggested is stick with the main version.

What a dumb in primis I thought were a package subdivision or something like that :)) . Ok Thank you very much!!

[davidy]

Appimagelauncher deb file after updating via synaptic, and a reboot it seems, does actually integrate itself as well as any appimages you add to it. It seems to extract the appimage's icon which then will be accessible in the 'all icons' list. Of the 19 different appimages I keep, only losslesscut and avidemux did not integrate. Avidemux gives me a gear icon when opened, and losslesscut straight up has a question mark. I used this back in 2020 but gave up as I was still new with MX. But after seeing it actually does do what it says, for the most part, I am definitely keeping and using it. The only thing I had to do was repoint all the appimage files to their newly renamed ones and repoint them to their new icons which appimagelauncher extracted. Most of the icons I was using I actually no longer need which is great. Better to have them extracted and usable than hunt them down or 'make' them.

The enhanced qbittorrent is not aimed at the chinese market specifically. It simply adds trackers, if you wish, from a downloadable list, and has options to autoban unknown peers from china (seeing as they have lots of information repression going on), and can autoban bittorrent media player peers, among other things. The fact it can ban chinese peers is a security option because of the repression that country has. It's an option only and is not on by default. hence the word 'enhanced'

The various menu editing abilities and the way in which linux itself works is something I am not an expert in by any means. I kinda miss Windows simple ability to create an ini file that solved any icon issues. Too bad linux isn't as simple.
As for qbit itself? I always remove any trackers which have zero seeds and also any that are not working. Encryption-forced (always on), negating the need for iplist filtering. Couldn't gas. The black.qbtheme is the one I like too.

[harrykar]

Appimagelauncher deb file after updating via synaptic, and a reboot it seems, does actually integrate itself as well as any appimages you add to it. It seems to extract the appimage's icon which then will be accessible in the 'all icons' list. Of the 19 different appimages I keep, only losslesscut and avidemux did not integrate. Avidemux gives me a gear icon when opened, and losslesscut straight up has a question mark. I used this back in 2020 but gave up as I was still new with MX. But after seeing it actually does do what it says, for the most part, I am definitely keeping and using it. The only thing I had to do was repoint all the appimage files to their newly renamed ones and repoint them to their new icons which appimagelauncher extracted. Most of the icons I was using I actually no longer need which is great. Better to have them extracted and usable than hunt them down or 'make' them.

This project seems without activity since 2022?

The enhanced qbittorrent is not aimed at the chinese market specifically. It simply adds trackers, if you wish, from a downloadable list, and has options to autoban unknown peers from china (seeing as they have lots of information repression going on), and can autoban bittorrent media player peers, among other things. The fact it can ban chinese peers is a security option because of the repression that country has. It's an option only and is not on by default. hence the word 'enhanced'

Good to know Thanks

The various menu editing abilities and the way in which linux itself works is something I am not an expert in by any means. I kinda miss Windows simple ability to create an ini file that solved any icon issues. Too bad linux isn't as simple.

[OT]
First thing first Operating Systems are very serious software SYSTEMS(designed and implemented in a layered fashion to face the complexity of things that have to carry out for us end users be capable to sit and communicate with a digital machine indifferent be a handheld or laptop or even an IOT embedded device. FYI Windows 11 kernel code in a ballpark figure measures circa 60 - 100 millions of lines of code, Linux kernel circa 40 millions of code lines and that's only the kernel(the part of an OS that saw only few persons) the most significant part of an OS, you have still add shared libraries and various utility programs to make an integral whole utilizable OS) regardless if Windows, *nixes(android, IOS, MacOS, Linux, *BSDs ). Having said this every OS has his pros and cons.
[/OT]
The 'issue' we're talking about(more esthetic than functional) is only a minor annoyance than can be negligible in comparison on really very OS's real issues :)

... Encryption-forced (always on), ...

About encryption on bittorent protocol you have to know that your IP is always traceable cause the nature of the protocol itself¸ it's maybe a very first step but still not worth to base your privacy on.

...negating the need for iplist filtering. ...

What you mean?

[davidy]

Encrypting qbit has nothing to do with your ip and for that matter torrenting in and of itself is used by many sites legally. You can create a torrent from anything on your system and then share it with anyone you want by giving them the .torrent file with you as the seeder. Iplist filtering is like an adblocker but for ip addressing instead-kinda like blocking a caller you don't care to share with. The project may be without activity but synaptic in MX 21.3 xfce had updates for it. It works. Rebooting is necessary so that the OS I believe can update it's caches to reflect the changes. Like I said if it was as easy as a simple ini file but linux is not quite so simple.
Fluxgui is without activity but I'm using it right now, with redshift of course, and I've been using it since I first started using MX over 2+ years ago. If something works just because the OS gets regular updates doesn't necessarily mean it breaks the ap. With fluxgui you just have to install it manually and then add redshift to the mix, apparently gone in MX23. I still remember the pair of redwing boots in my parents closet that at first were gigantic. I grew into them and they still worked fine. Never actually wore them but the memory is fun.

[harrykar]

Encrypting qbit has nothing to do with your ip and for that matter torrenting in and of itself is used by many sites legally.

Indeed Encrypting bittorent traffic has nothing to do with IP (That one is the most important factor for user traceability hence privacy & security in general) and moreover is very weak(RC4 encryption cipher "with an encryption key strength of between 60-80 bits (which is quite weak compared to AES which is the standard for OpenVPN traffic").) and in particular qb's encryption is even worse(encrypt only headers not payload and is available only for historical reasons:"back in the past some ISP applied throttling on such headers and this was the workaround. Not really useful nowadays").
So what is the point of using it? IMHO No one

You can create a torrent from anything on your system and then share it with anyone you want by giving them the .torrent file with you as the seeder.

Right that's one of the ways to distribute content

Iplist filtering is like an adblocker but for ip addressing instead-kinda like blocking a caller you don't care to share with.

Yeah I know but you wrote " negating the need for iplist filtering " why you negate iplist?

The project may be without activity but synaptic in MX 21.3 xfce had updates for it. It works.

You mean they've a deb repository? and you have added their repo in synaptic?
I can't understand how they do updates without github activity

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Fluxgui is without activity but I'm using it right now, with redshift of course, and I've been using it since I first started using MX over 2+ years ago. If something works just because the OS gets regular updates doesn't necessarily mean it breaks the ap. With fluxgui you just have to install it manually and then add redshift to the mix, apparently gone in MX23. I still remember the pair of redwing boots in my parents closet that at first were gigantic. I grew into them and they still worked fine. Never actually wore them but the memory is fun.

As an aside I also use redshift and redshift-gtk as panel applet(I guess Fluxgui corresponds to redshift-gtk )
Anyway I got your point yeah if an application works and do the work we need is not so important be update-able

[fehlix]

In up-down order in pic the last app(qbittorent) shows a gear instead the applications picture what can I do to show the app's picture?
TIA

For an AppImage like qbittotorent save this desktop file e,g like
this into ~/.local/share/applications/qbittorrent-appimage.desktop
but do adjust the path and filename of the executable appimage file:
/home/demo/bin/qbittorrent.AppImage
accordingly.

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=qBittorrent AppImage
Type=Application
Exec=/home/demo/bin/qbittorrent.AppImage %U
GenericName=BitTorrent client
Comment=Download and share files over BitTorrent
Icon=qbittorrent
MimeType=application/x-bittorrent;x-scheme-handler/magnet;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=qbittorrent
SingleMainWindow=true
Categories=Network;FileTransfer;P2P;Qt;
Keywords=bittorrent;torrent;magnet;download;p2p;

Now you should find a menu entry within the whisker menu for qbittorent appimage.
And as the docklick-taskbar is scanning the .../share/applications folder,
it should now know about the WMClass=qbittorent
and the icon to display in the task bar, which would be the papirus-theme svg icon.
The other icon in the systray is taken from the Appimage-squashfs archive.