# Change the Slicer's name and icon

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329 "2022-09-19T08:43:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![miniminic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/miniminic/32/16647_2.png) [@miniminic](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/miniminic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329/1 "2022-09-19T08:43:12Z")

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How to change this Slicer’s name and icon

 ![屏幕截图](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/d/8/d88b52a15ff195cb42c966dff3ffdb65c0941a0d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329/2 "2022-09-19T11:35:05Z")

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You can use the [SlicerCustomAppTemplate](https://github.com/KitwareMedical/SlicerCustomAppTemplate) to create a customized version of Slicer with a new name, logo, style sheets, default module, etc…

See this article about SlicerCAT which is an example implementation of a SlicerCustomApp

[https://www.kitware.com/slicercat-creating-custom-applications-based-on-3d-slicer/](https://www.kitware.com/slicercat-creating-custom-applications-based-on-3d-slicer/)

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**Author:** ![miniminic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/miniminic/32/16647_2.png) [@miniminic](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/miniminic)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329/3 "2022-09-19T11:37:55Z")

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Do I have to use SlicerCAT to customize these things? I have made a lot of changes in Slicer, and I don’t want to use SlicerCAT to rewrite and edit them, at least not yet

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329/4 "2022-09-19T14:34:39Z")

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SlicerCustomApp was specifically created for all these customizations that you desire so you shouldn’t just be hacking a fork of the Slicer git repo to try and achieve the same thing as you will be wasting work.

With a SlicerCustomApp you can specify the git repo of Slicer that you want to use. So in the SlicerCAT example of a SlicerCustomApp see this section:

> <https://github.com/KitwareMedical/SlicerCAT/blob/e651f197f56e3378ce094378dd29631c08b25a33/CMakeLists.txt#L14-L18>

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**Author:** ![miniminic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/miniminic/32/16647_2.png) [@miniminic](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/miniminic)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/change-the-slicers-name-and-icon/25329/5 "2022-09-20T02:19:38Z")

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Okay, thank you very much.