gedit has no application icon

[Alistair Buxton]

When running gedit in Xubuntu 13.10, the icon which should appear in the top left corner of the window, or in the task bar, is replaced by a default one. The icon in the menu and launcher is displayed correctly. See screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gedit 3.8.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 31 00:58:08 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-27 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130827)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Yeh same here on Kubuntu (shows as a styalised X).

(Set to Low importance since only cosmetic).

Dave

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

I have tracked down the cause if this problem. On Win+Mac gtk sets the application icon directly, but on Linux it was handled by smclient which would get the icon from the .desktop. smclient support was removed, but the icon setting call was not replaced when this was done.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue got fixed in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/commit/?id=7ff1b3696fee69a7adfbb82b7a8f5b2ae2932bb1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that was fixed in 3.10.3