Improper icon on Mac

[priand]

Not sure if this is a bug or an improper configuration, but my application shows a generic Java icon when in the dock (and not started). Inspecting the app, Contents/Resources/icon.icns is not my icon, but the generic java one.
When I used npx jdeploy, I properly set this icon as the icon, the install splash screen and the splash scree with the same icon. Three copies have been installed in my project root (icon.png, splash.pgn & installsplash.png). The splash icon are in used but not the app one. It also shows the wrong icon in the install page: https://www.jdeploy.com/~monflabs-devtoolbox-pre. Interestingly the icon seems to be the right one in the jdeploy/bundles app (mac-amd64 & mac-arm64), but not in the installed bundled.
Did I miss something in the configuration? Or should I clear some cache (I deleted jdeploy* folder before packaging)?

[shannah]

I don't think I've run into this one before. The fact that it appears correct in some contexts and not others makes me think there might be something about the icon png that it is having trouble processing.

I can take a look tomorrow.

I suggest trying a different png file and see if that makes a difference.

[priand]

Thank you for your quick answer. I already changed the icon but it did not make a difference.

[shannah]

When I ran your png through the inspector in Preview, it looked different than for most of the PNGs I've used before. Namely, it included a TIFF section, which makes it look like this PNG file includes TIFF information also. Since it was produced by Pixelmator, it makes me think this might be the actual pixelmator file (since Pixelmator uses PNG as its source format).

I ran this through https://squoosh.app/ to re-encode it. This version should work.

In case Github performs further processing, you can try it yourself. I used the 0xiPNG compression.

I haven't tested this in an app yet, but I'm pretty sure it will work.

[priand]

Thank you for the analysis. I used your latest icon but still face the same behavior: the downloaded app doesn't have the proper icon in its Contents, while the local build (jdeploy/) has it:


I also believe that changing the icons (including the splash ones) requires a full app reinstall, correct?
Not sure if it makes a difference, but I'm deploying using:

npx jdeploy package
npm publish

My npm account is using a one time password and I've never been able to use public from the UI app.

[shannah]

Try just running npx jdeploy publish

[priand]

Yeah, it does not work for me because of the one time password

npm notice Publishing to https://registry.npmjs.org/ with tag latest and default access
npm ERR! code EOTP
npm ERR! This operation requires a one-time password from your authenticator.
npm ERR! You can provide a one-time password by passing --otp=<code> to the command you ran.
npm ERR! If you already provided a one-time password then it is likely that you either typoed
npm ERR! it, or it timed out. Please try again.

[shannah]

Run npm login first. Then run npx jdeploy publish

Or if you have a token already, you can use that on the command line.

E.g.
NPM_TOKEN=xxxxx npx jdeploy publish

[priand]

Thank you, that worked now! I actually changed the 2FA settings to make it work.
Thanks again for your help.

[shannah]

Glad you got it working.
It should still be possible to do this with 2FA. What settings did you change?

[priand]

I kept 2FA but unchecked 'Require two-factor authentication for write actions'. It did not work with that enabled,