Installing windows icons

[Rik]

On 02/17/2015 09:37 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:50:27 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> On 02/16/2015 10:50 AM, rik wrote:
>>
>>> That's two votes for Mike's solution which is good enough.
>>
>> I agree that we should try to avoid keeping generated files in the repo.
>> Or, even if we do, we should still write down the rules for generating the
>> files and have a "maintainer super clean" target that removes the generated
>> files and exercises the rules.
>>
>> I also think that these icon files should be treated like the configure
>> script, the flex and bison generated files, and doc files for tar file
>> distributions.  Users who build from tar files should not need to generate
>> these files unless they modify the corresponding source files.
>
> I believe the changeset I pushed does all of this correctly:
>
>   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1687269e31e4
>
> The icotool and rsvg-convert programs are now required to build from hg
> and to make the `dist` target. The icons are generated, are in the tar
> source distribution, and are also installed to what I think are the
> correct paths for freedesktop compatible systems:
>
>  
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>
> The Windows icon is generated but not installed, it can be copied and
> used wherever it's needed by the mxe-octave build. It now contains
> multiple resolutions so it should scale correctly when used on Windows
> systems.

2/18/15

John D.,

Do you know where to put the icons on the Windows side with the NSIS installer?

--Rik