Photoshop Plugin icons not showing up when docked with other items. Why?

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
1

When I add my Photoshop Plugin to the area on the side, instead of showing the icons, there’s just an empty space there:

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Why is this happening?

Here’s the code I have in the manifest which specifies the icons:

    "icons": [
        {"width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/dark@1x.png", "scale": [1], "theme": ["dark", "darkest"]},
        {"width": 46, "height": 46, "path": "icons/dark@2x.png", "scale": [2], "theme": ["dark", "darkest"]},
        {"width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/light@1x.png", "scale": [1], "theme": ["lightest", "light"]},
        {"width": 46, "height": 46, "path": "icons/light@2x.png", "scale": [2], "theme": ["lightest", "light"]}
    ],
    "entrypoints": [
        {
            "type": "panel",
            "id": "main",
            "label": {
                "default": "test-plugin-v1"
            },
            "icons": [
                {"width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/dark@1x.png", "scale": [1], "theme": ["dark", "darkest"]},
                {"width": 46, "height": 46, "path": "icons/dark@2x.png", "scale": [2], "theme": ["dark", "darkest"]},
                {"width": 23, "height": 23, "path": "icons/light@1x.png", "scale": [1], "theme": ["lightest", "light"]},
                {"width": 46, "height": 46, "path": "icons/light@2x.png", "scale": [2], "theme": ["lightest", "light"]}
            ],
            "minimumSize": {"width": 290, "height": 200},
            "maximumSize": {"width": 290, "height": 600},
            "preferredDockedSize": {"width": 230, "height": 300},
            "preferredFloatingSize": {"width": 290, "height": 400}
        }
    ],

And those images are, indeed, at the path specified in the manifest file above.

Thanks!

2

Does it appear if you reduce the panel to a floating icon (that is, not docked)?

3

No:

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4

Try adding "species": [ "chrome"] to the panel’s icons, and "species": ["pluginList"] to the other ones.

5

That’s what I have in my manifest

        { 
           "width": 23, 
           "height": 23, 
           "path": "assets/plugin-icons/DarkTheme_I.png", 
           "scale": [ 
             1, 
             2 
           ], 
           "theme": [ 
             "dark", 
             "darkest", 
             "medium" 
           ], 
           "species": [ 
             "chrome" 
           ] 
         },

It’s not necessary to define separate paths for different scales. @1x and @2x are added automatically

6

Tried that and still nothing somehow. Really not sure why.

7

I modeled this and it’s still not displaying the icons.

8

Found the solution, from here: Plugin and Panel Icons - #3 by chuckweger

Due to what I would argue is a VERY strange requirement, the manifest filename needs to be different from the actual filename.

9

This part of the file name is not supposed to be in manifest file but it should be in your file system as file name.

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