New menu items do not have icons until session restart

[Trent Lloyd]

When a new application is installed (say I compile gnomebaker and install it, or
install vmware, or any other application), their new menu items are listed in
the applications menu, however they have no icon.

Secondly, if you try to create a launcher on the panel (in this situation), it
will list the icon but an attempt to use it fails in an icon not found error.
(but the file exists)

The icons work fine after a session restart/rebooting.

Unsure if this is a result of some kind of cache or something, but obviously
needs fixing.

Note: I am unsure if this is the right component as it goes to debzilla and not
seb, hopefully someone can reassign it if its wrong.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use warty or hoary ? That works fine here on my hoary system. Do you a
such desktop file to attach to bugzilla ? Where do you copy it ?

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Created an attachment (id=1885)
vmware workstation desktop file

/usr/share/applications/vmware-workstation.desktop

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Created an attachment (id=1886)
vmware icon

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vmware-workstation.png

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

I am running hoary as of a few hours ago.

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

As a more sane example from the ubuntu archvies (rather than an installed third
party app), I just installed the 'ghex' package, I am attaching two screenshots,
before and after, showing the broken item in the applications menu.

I should note this happened on my last install too, i reinstalled a couple weeks
ago.

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Created an attachment (id=1887)
menu before session restart

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Created an attachment (id=1888)
menu after session restart

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

works fine here. Does your gamin work fine ? If you copy a file to ~/Desktop do
you get it or do you need a refresh ?

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> works fine here. Does your gamin work fine ? If you copy a file to ~/Desktop do
> you get it or do you need a refresh ?

Ahh, no it's not working correctly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gamin issue, I'm marking it as a duplicate of #7078

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13428.