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MXFB includes the large and not especially attractive Moka icon set for the sole purpose of providing png icons for desktop icons using idesk. @ceeslans pointed out on slack this morning that a new version of idesk was released a year and a half ago that along with other features allegedly can handle svg icons if "--enable-svg" is included during compilation. Repology shows a small handful of distros that have the most recent version though none that is Debian-based.

If possible, we would like to be able to test 0.7.8 during the beta period that starts in about a week. If results are positive then we could drop Moka and be able to use Papirus, giving a nice icon coherency and lightening our load.

TIA

I'll take a look---I don't even remember if Debian or MX has it in the repos at all...

Both have the current version, but as I said in OP neither has this and Repology shows no Debian-based distro with it.

Thanks.

OK, I have the sources, so will try and build it later today.

Excellent! Pls don't forget the svg part--ope it works...

Will the MX Test Repo be enabled for the beta phase? If yes, it would be ideal to put it there.

Apparently the 0.7.5 version had some issues that Debian patched away, and 0.7.8 only partially addressed those.

I managed to build MX 23 versions with the svg support, but it can't find the libsvg2-dev headers in MX 21, even using pkg-config, even though both versions ship with similar .pc files that are supposed to accomplish that.

I don't know if a newer libsvg2 can be backported to MX 21, since it's getting tied to Rust and Cargo now.

I would rather not break mx21 fluxbox users at this point with something unforeseen. lets just stick with mx23 for this idesk.

Agreed.

I'll send it to the MX 23 repo, then.

Hello Stevo and Jerry3904
yes the mx23 idesk 7.8 show icons of .svg
require Width: and Height: in .lnk