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_ADaMA$_

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Registered: 2024-08-25

Posts: 25

trying to create custom dolphin service menu to extract icons from exe

i created service menu and stuck at execution, I know i need wrestool from icoutils but i found out exe can have a lot of icons inside, but dolphin preview for exe chooses right one, how?
i want to implement same method as dolphins to choose the right icon

Virus1x

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Registered: 2025-12-03

Posts: 12

Re: trying to create custom dolphin service menu to extract icons from exe

So, Dolphin gets its icons through KIO/thumbnailers. If you want your program to do the same thing, you should use those metadata tricks instead of just using wrestool.