Window Application icon doesn't work

on windows platform with kivy 1.8.0 ‘portable package’, App.icon doesn’t set the window icon, tested with the following code:

from kivy.app in App

class MyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        self.icon = 'myicon.png'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyApp().run()

example from the kivy.App documentation

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[CodeMouse92]

Bug still present on Ubuntu 16.04 and Kivy 1.9.2.

One reason is because the icon doesn’t appear on Ubuntu Unity is because that OS relies on .desktop files. On my blog, I describe a handy workaround:

~~http://www.indeliblebluepen.com/?p=1012~~

https://dev.to/codemouse92/icons-python-and-ubuntu

[n2qzshce]

how is this still broken

@yukkidev I was able to get this working in my project, you may be able to use it for a reference: https://github.com/n2qzshce/ham-radio-sync/blob/1819c70019f9e42140b056b76b082bb0208454af/src/ui/app_window.py#L135