Facebook Webapp Not Appearing in Launcher

[Steven Heidel]

All my unity-webapps work with chromium, except for Facebook. It popped up the bar to ask me to install, I did, and the unity-webapps-facebookmessenger package was installed. However, it does not appear in the dash or launcher.

I think perhaps I've traced the problem to a missing .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications, all the working ones are there but Facebook isn't. However I can't test this because I don't have a copy of that .desktop file and it really should have been installed in the first place.

I've tried uninstalling and installing package, closing/reopening chromium, purging the package, restarting the computer, still no icon. It also doesn't appear in the messaging menu either. Installing unity-webapps-facebookapps didn't help, don't know how those two packages are related if at all.

I asked the question on askubuntu with no response: http://askubuntu.com/questions/235444/facebook-webapp-doesnt-work
And then on launchpad answers (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-webapps-facebookmessenger/+question/218344) where I was encouraged to file this bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-webapps-facebookmessenger 2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 6 02:21:15 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-23 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: unity-webapps-facebookmessenger
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.