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How to edit icon in Enlightenment? This is how to do it in manual way

Now let's go through the traditional way, in other words customizing the menu etc by using configuration files. You will need to make a simple text file with the name ".order" in a certain location. The directories are as follows:

• E17 menu --> ~/.e/e/applications/favourite
• IBar --> ~/.e/e/applications/bar
• Engage --> ~/.e/e/applications/engage

You can also place a ".order" text file to ~/.e/e/applications/startup to specify what applications are started automatically every time you start E17. The file itself is a normal text file with the EAP filenames in the order in which you want them to be displayed (and if the file is used to specify startup applications, it's the order in which they start). Here is an example:

firefox.eap
mozilla.eap
xmms.eap
bmp.eap
evidence.eap
entice.eap

This would add the above icons in the order specified. For the menu, you may also create submenus. To do this you need to create directories within ~/.e/e/applications/favourite and then create ".order" files in the directories. It follows the same logic except that you can also add directories. For example if you made a directory called ~/.e/e/applications/favourite/multimedia you could have a ".order" file in ~/.e/e/applications/favourite that looks like this:

firefox.eap
mozilla.eap
irc.eap
multimedia

This would create a menu with the three above icons and a submenu called multimedia. To specify what icons are displayed in the submenu, you'll need to create a ".order" file there too. It's also possible to create submenus within submenus. The directory options in the menu have no icon by default. You can add an icon for them by placing an icon file called ".directory.eap" within the directory in question. The ".directory.eap" file should contain no other data except an icon file and an application name, which can be anything you want - the application name will be the name of the menu option and the icon will be what's shown in the menu in addition to name.

For example, let's check the previous example. If you wanted to create an icon for the "multimedia" option in the menu, you would have to place a ".directory.eap" in ~/.e/e/applications/favourite/multimedia. In this case the application name for this icon could be "multimedia" for example. It could also be anything else you want. In other words the menu directory option name (application name) in the ".directory.eap" does not have to be anything specific, nor does it have to match the directory. For more examples, download a tarball of HandyAndE's (E17 dev/Engage author) ~/.e/e/applications/ directory from http://andy.elcock.org/Files/_files/applications.tar.gz.

And how to edit eap files? This is the manual way

For example if you already have an EAP file that includes the application execute line "evidence -T rephormed" you could change it to "evidence -T tosh" with:

$ enlightenment_eapp -set-exe "evidence -T tosh" /path/to/evidence.eap 

All info was taken from enlightenment site itself. You can view more information at here.

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