xfce4-panel changing icon for showdesktop plugin

[killermoehre]

Am 29. November 2015 09:55:26 MEZ, schrieb Sylvain <xfce4 at ledragon.net>:
>Hi Charlie,
>
>On 28/11/2015 13:45, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>> You are, of course, welcome. I do not know any place with this
>> documentation. I was hoping a developer would jump in and give you
>> that information. 
>
>OK. I will wait a bit to see if someone else answer before asking more.
>
>I tested to change Icons of some other panel's plugin without success
>yet, on changing there's Icon using:
>
>~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop
>
>
>For example:
>xfce4-places-plugin-1.6.0
>xfce4-screenshooter-1.8.1
>xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.4.0
>
>I don't know yet how they read their prefs, nor if
>
>xfce4-panel -r
>
>is sufficient to reload the icon if I change something.
>
>Nothing change yet. Even when editing 
>/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/*.desktop
>
>Some rc files are stored in ~/.config/xfce4/panel/ … no more clue yet.
>
>Regards,
>Sylvain.

If the plugin doesn't offer to change its icon, than it's hardcoded. What you can do is to change your icon theme, so the icon referenced by the plugin changes.

Regards