# Linuxdeployqt and displaying my icon

**URL:** <https://discourse.appimage.org/t/linuxdeployqt-and-displaying-my-icon/292>\
**Category:** Creating AppImages\
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/linuxdeployqt-and-displaying-my-icon/292 "2018-02-08T03:25:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/linuxdeployqt-and-displaying-my-icon/292/13 "2018-02-17T20:25:19Z")

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Type 2 is the most current version of AppImage and is produced by the appimagetool and linuxdeployqt tools rather than the original AppImageAssistant tool. This thread describes Type 2 AppImages:

> [@The future of AppImage: Type 2 and new tools](https://discourse.appimage.org/t/the-future-of-appimage-type-2-and-new-tools/65):
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> Experimenting with squashfs instead of ISO9660. Switching from zisofs to squashfs would: Significantly save space, up to 45% (e.g., 121 MB rather than 218 MB for QtCreator-5.7.0-x86\_64.AppImage when using a 1 MB block size with -comp xz -b 1M but that makes application launches of large apps noticeably slower); or 27% (159 MB rather than 218 MB) with great performance using default gzip2 compression Allow us to use less arcane generation tools, i.e., mksquashfs instead of xorriso Significantl…

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