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netbook-launcher package

  1. Bug #424822
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 424822

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toomanyplugs (nnorausky) wrote : Re: Karmic A5: changed icons don't show up in Favorites

Forgive me if this is not the right place, but I have this same issue in Karmic Netbook Remix after it has been released (updated as of today, 1/31/10). I think I found a workaround, or at least a place to start looking.

I am rather new to Ubuntu, so if there's more info to be had, let me know what to post.

I was poking around in gconf-editor for the netbook-launcher settings and noticed that for the new shortcuts I had created in (System -> Preferences -> Main Menu), and then added to Favorites, the desktop_file key pointed to /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop

When I looked at the file in Terminal (cat /home/(user)/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop) here's what I got:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Icon[en_US]=(path to custom logo)
Name[en_US]=(Shortcut Name)
Exec=(Shortcut executable)
Name=(Shortcut Name)
Icon=gnome-panel-launcher

Notice the Icon and Icon[en_US]? The icons were not the same there. I changed the Icon value to match Icon[en_US] value and logged out/in and it works! Custom icon in Favorites menu!

So it appears that either netbook-launcher is not looking at the Icon[en_US], or that alacarte isn't updating both values. Dunno which one is non-compliant.

Cheers,

Nik