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I'm running Kubuntu 14.04. I have an icon on my desktop that I would like to reuse somewhere else. The properties of the icon show the graphic, but not where the actual graphic file is located. How can I find it?

I note that it would be very nice if each desktop file somehow provided the location of its icon, not just the picture.

Paul A.
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  • You see the .desktop link files are stored in location /usr/share/applications /usr/share/icons – Ramesh Chand Feb 15 '16 at 05:28
  • The icon I'm looking for is not in either of those locations. But even if it was, I would expect to see the location of the icon by clicking on the icon in the desktop properties. – Paul A. Feb 15 '16 at 05:35

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Icon file paths

The KDE is following the Freedesktop icon theme specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html . Directory layout: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#directory_layout . From the Askubuntu: Where are icons stored? .

KDE4/Plasma4

Right clicking the desktop icon show an option to look the desktop file.

Either Properties > preview (Folder desktop).

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or Icon Settings > properties (Default desktop).

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If the icon can be found from the default locations then only the icon name will be shown.

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If the icon is not at the default places then the whole path will be shown.

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Finding things

Ubuntu find https://help.ubuntu.com/community/find

locate - list files in databases that match a pattern, i.e. find inside updatedb's list

Ubuntu finding files https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FindingFiles

Command:

locate name.png

should show the location of the icon name.png - here it does.

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