linicon

A library for looking up icons on Linux and other FreeDesktop compliant systems. This library implements the FreeDesktop Icon Theme specification.

Other Parts of this Project

• Freedesktop Entry Parser A library for parsing Freedesktop entires files, used by this library. .desktop files and theme index files use this format.
• linicon-ffi C bindings for linicon.
• Freedesktop Entry Parser JS Freedesktop Entry Parser compiled into wasm for use in JS.

Build and Testing

The tests for this library depend on the Faenza icon pack being installed. To test icon looks I need an icon library installed and Faenza is pretty small and available on a lot of distros.