Changed the bitmap icons for svg and added a generator for the sizes. It's almost there, but we still don't have our icon to show our nor our desktop entry.

.gitignore

@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Thumbs.db
 # Vim swap files
 *.swp
 
+# png files
+*.png
+
 # Virtualenv ignore
 bin/
 lib/

res/get_sizes.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+SIZES=( 16x16 22x22 24x24 32x32 36x36 48x48 64x64 72x72 96x96 128x128 192x192 256x256 )
+
+# If we can't find the svg, cd into res, we're
+# probably being called from the root of
+# the source tree
+if [ ! -e jsoninspector.svg ]; then
+    cd res
+fi
+
+for s in "${SIZES[@]}"; do
+    echo "Creating $s image from svg" ;
+    convert -background none jsoninspector.svg -resize $s jsoninspector$s.png
+done

res/jsoninspector.desktop

@@ -1,8 +1,21 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
-Name=JSON Inspector
-Exec=jsoninspector.py
-Terminal=false                                  
+Categories=GTK;Development;
+Comment[en_US]=A tool for examining JSON text easily
+Comment=A tool for examining JSON text easily
+Exec=jsoninspector
+GenericName[en_US]=JSON Inspector
+GenericName=JSON Inspector
 Icon=jsoninspector
-Type=Application                                
-Categories=GNOME;GTK;Development;
-Comment=JSON Inspector              
+MimeType=
+Name[en_US]=JSON Inspector
+Name=JSON Inspector
+Path=
+StartupNotify=true
+Terminal=false
+TerminalOptions=
+TryExec=/usr/bin/jsoninspector
+Type=Application
+X-DBUS-ServiceName=
+X-DBUS-StartupType=
+X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
+X-KDE-Username=

res/jsoninspector.glade

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
     <property name="window_position">center</property>
     <property name="default_width">200</property>
     <property name="default_height">180</property>
-    <property name="icon_name">java-1.7.0</property>
+    <property name="icon_name">jsoninspector</property>
     <signal name="delete-event" handler="onCopyJSONDelete" swapped="no"/>
     <signal name="destroy" handler="onCopyJSONDestroy" swapped="no"/>
     <child>
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
     <property name="can_focus">False</property>
     <property name="title" translatable="yes">JSON Inspector</property>
     <property name="window_position">center</property>
-    <property name="icon_name">java-1.7.0</property>
+    <property name="icon_name">jsoninspector</property>
     <signal name="delete-event" handler="onMainWindowDelete" swapped="no"/>
     <child>
       <object class="GtkBox" id="box1">

setup.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import ez_setup, sys, shutil, os, os.path
+import ez_setup, sys, shutil, os, os.path, subprocess
 ez_setup.use_setuptools()
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
@@ -28,16 +28,26 @@ class CustomInstall(install):
 
             except:
                 print "Warning: error copying translation files."
+
+            # Generate the icons
+            try:
+                result = subprocess.call(['./res/get_sizes.sh'])
+
+            except:
+                result = 1
+
+            if result != 0:
+                print "Warning: Error generating icons"
     
             # Copy the icons
             print "Installing application icons..."
-            for icon_size in ['16x16', '32x32', '48x48', '64x64', '128x128']:
+            for icon_size in ['{sz}x{sz}'.format(sz = x) for x in ['16', '22','24', '32', '36', '48', '64', '72', '96', '128', '192']]:
                 try:
                     shutil.copyfile('res/jsoninspector' + icon_size + ".png", 
                                     '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/' + icon_size + "/apps/jsoninspector.png")
 
                 except:
-                    print "Warning: error copying icon {size}.".format(icon_size)
+                    print "Warning: error copying icon {size}.".format(size = icon_size)
 
             try:
                 shutil.copyfile('res/jsoninspector48x48.png', '/usr/share/pixmaps/jsoninspector.png')
@@ -45,6 +55,23 @@ class CustomInstall(install):
             except:
                 print "Warning: error copying icon to pixmaps directory."
 
+            try:
+                shutil.copyfile('res/jsoninspector.svg' ,'/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jsoninspector.svg')
+
+            except:
+                print "Warning: error copying svg to scalable."
+
+            print "Updating icon cache..."
+
+            try:
+                result = subprocess.call(['/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor/'])
+
+            except:
+                result = 1
+            
+            if result != 0:
+                print "Warning: Error updating hicolor icon cache."
+
             try:
                 print "Installing glade file..."
                 shutil.copyfile('res/jsoninspector.glade', '/usr/local/share/jsoninspector/jsoninspector.desktop')