Copy icon-symbolic.svg to custom location for appindicator

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Hi, people
I am making a snap for python application, that shows an icon in system tray using appindicator. When I run a snap on Ubuntu 18.04 - everything works fine and icon in tray shows correctly. But when I run it on Ubuntu 20.04, gnome-shell and appindicator extension are unable to find that icon for tray(my-app-symbolic.svg) and shows 3 dots instead of icon

I did some experiments and it turns out, that in Ubuntu 20.04 appindicator extension tries to find icon in /prime/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/, but Snapcraft put it in /prime/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/

So, I manually copied this icon to /prime/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/ using a ‘dump’ plugin and now everything works fine on 20.04:

    tray-icon:
      plugin: dump
      source: icons/
      organize:
        'my-app-symbolic.svg': usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/

So my question is: what is the most proper way to put this icon to custom location during snap build? Are there some better way to do that instead of using ‘dump’ plugin?

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How are you building your parts? Perhaps you need to set your prefix to /usr? E.g. CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr for cmake.

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I build using default python plugin provided by snapcraft