application icon remains after apt-get remove

[Alex Chiang]

Using Maverick.

I see an icon for, say, inkscape, in the "Applications" menu.

I apt-get remove inkscape. I re-open the Applications page, and I still see the inkscape icon, which is still clickable.

I can click it, and the Applications menu goes away, making me think that it's trying to launch something, but of course, the app doesn't launch (since it's been removed).

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Removing the app with apt or software centre should definitely also
remove the icon from the launcher, yes.

Mark

[Alex Chiang (achiang)]

Apologies for being unclear; the icon remains in the *dash*, not the launcher.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

Alex - if the icon is in the Dash, in the Installed section, then you have a .desktop file for inkscape somewhere in the path that Unity picks up applications from. Most likely one of:

/usr/share/applications/inkscape.desktop
/usr/local/share/applications/inkscape.desktop
/usr/share/gnome/applications/inkscape.desktop

Can you confirm?

If it's under the Available group then it just means that it's in the repositories and available for installation, which is not a bug.

Please reopen the bug with an appropriate status when you have some feedback.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

same here, Mikkel, sync to change every task when rolling back the status please :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Paweł Stołowski (stolowski)]

This is a very old bug and it's certainly not a case anymore with unity-lens-applications. Closing.