Comment 7 for bug 1013725

Here's the behavior I'm noticing -- it's almost like when the error happens the existing icon (the one pinned to the laucher) dies, and so upon opening a document Unity creates a new icon as if there weren't already a Writer icon pinned.

When the error is occurring, right-clicking on the pinned icon shows a quicklist, but the menu items aren't correct. The middle item is blank, and there's no option to remove it from the launcher. If you drag it to the trash bin to delete it from the laucher, it doesn't disappear immediately, but upon logging out and back in it's gone. Then you can drag the icon from the dash to the laucher, and it works again.

I've also found that, without logging out, simply dragging the Writer icon from the dash to the laucher replaces the 'dead' pinned icon with a new, living one.

Does anyone know where the config file that stores the information about what is to be displayed in the laucher is located? It would be interesting to see if this file is different when the bug is occurring than when it isn't.