Recently installed apps shows in menus without icon

[Ricardo Pérez López]

When I install a new app, it shows in the Applications menu, but without correct
icon. (It seems like the app has no icon.)

I must restart gnome-panel in order to see the correct application icon.

I think gnome-panel has refreshing problems.

I have that problem with all new installed programs which appears in the
Applications menu.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

are you using warty or hoary ? does the refresh works fine for you desktop by
example ? with hoary all the entry should have an icons and that works fine here

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> are you using warty or hoary ? does the refresh works fine for you desktop by
> example ? with hoary all the entry should have an icons and that works fine here

I'm using Hoary. The refresh works perfectly for my desktop.

I'm going to post two screenshots to clarify my problem. One post is taken just
after "apt-get install gnumeric", and the other post is taken just after
"killall gnome-panel". Thus you will see the problem clearer.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Created an attachment (id=2064)
Snapshot just after "apt-get install gnumeric"

This snapshot shows how Gnumeric appears in the Oficina (Office) menu, but
without its correct icon. This snapshot was taken just after "apt-get install
gnumeric".

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Created an attachment (id=2065)
Snapshot just after "killall gnome-panel"

This snapshot shows Gnumeric with its correct icon. This snapshot was taken
just after "killall gnome-panel".

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Curiously, the problem appears with Glade and Gnome, but isn't appears with
Quanta Plus, for example. I don't know why.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that works fine here, anybody else getting this issue ?

[Ji Yu (noizezone)]

happens on my desktop too. I am using hoary.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Happens in another machine, this time upgrading from Warty to Hoary.

<suppossing mode on>
Maybe the problem only appears when the locale is other than English? :/
<suppossing mode off>

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Happens on my machine too, same as the submitter describes, running hoary. This
is a very vanilla installation, en_US.UTF-8, nothing fancy. I'd noticed that
new apps didn't get icons, didn't actually notice until I saw this bug on
ubuntu-bugs that the icons actually show up properly when the panel is reinvoked
(say, when rebooting or logging out and back in). :)

[Christian Holtje (docwhat)]

Steps to reproduce:
  * Do a clean install.
  * Start up as your "normal" user.
  * Note that "devhelp is not available under Applications->Programming
  * Launch gnome-install-app
  * Install devhelp
  * Note that Applications->Programming->Devhelp now exists, but that the icon
is not available
Further info:
  * Right click on Applications->Programming->Devhelp
  * Choose "Add this launcher to panel"
  * You'll get an error "Failed to load image devhelp.png" "Details: Icon not found"
  * Right click on the new launcher
  * Pick properties
  * Note that the icon appears correctly here, but not on the panel
  * Click on the icon and choose devhelp-debian.xpm
  * Click "Close"
  * You'll get the same error as above, but for devhelp-debian.xpm
  * Change the icon to anything else, and it works okay.

Additional Notes:
  You may not have to do a clean install. I *think* that you should be able to
un-install devhelp and then logout and log back in. But I have not tested this,
so I cannot be sure. Possibly a reboot might be needed, depending on where the
stuff is being cached. (I just don't know) Possible the minimal is just
restarting gnome-panel.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Something weird:

The streamtuner package (it's in universe) doesn't appears in the menu (doesn't
appears AT ALL, no icon and no entry), UNTIL I restart gnome-panel using
"killall gnome-panel".

Anybody can reproduce this?

(P.S.: I'm using Hoary).

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

I installed Breezy Colony 3 yesterday, and it seems the problem has disappeared.
Anymore can reproduce that?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That works fine for me too. Closing the bug. Feel free to reopen if you get this
issue again.