1# llimphi-widget-app-icon
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3> Resolves a `.desktop` app's icon (freedesktop name, or Wayland's `app_id` via
4> `StartupWMClass`) to a file — and, with the `view` feature, to a cached paintable asset
5> (SVG or PNG).
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7What the suite's own apps declare as a short glyph is covered by `llimphi-icons`; **this
8is for other people's system software**.
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10## Why it is its own crate
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12It used to live inside `shuma-module-shell` as `app_icons`, consumed there by shuma and
13pata. It moved out on 2026-08-24 when the `maskay-llimphi` launcher needed it: it was
14**222 useful lines inside a crate of 60,250 lines and 46 dependencies** (all of shuma,
15pluma, atipay…), so using it cost dragging in half the suite.
16
17```bash
18cargo run -p llimphi-widget-app-icon --example diag_iconos
19```
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23Part of **llimphi** — see [llimphi](../../README.md) and the widget catalogue in [`MANUAL.md`](../../MANUAL.md).