chromium's icon wrong

[sonda90]

Hi i've seen that when Chromium is opened the Docky doesn't display the right Chromium's icon because it displays a white cross. You can see well it on the attached image.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

That icon is the 'default' icon when Docky cant figure out what to use.

The real bug here is it didnt match Chromium.

[sonda90 (the-sonda90)]

i've seen that also with Openoffice docky displays the cross instead of the right icon

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Basically it will show that icon quite a bit for now. If it cant find an icon for the app in your icon theme, itll show this icon. Most icon themes have icons for some of the more used apps but nowhere near all.

Jason is working on the matcher so we should be able to find the proper icon better.

[sonda90 (the-sonda90)]

But in /usr/share/pixmaps there's chromium-browser.png icon why docky doesn't choose it?

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Same problem with Thunderbird (/usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png exists).
There's also no option "Pin to dock" in this case.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Icon themes are not in /usr/share/pixmaps. Those files are not part of an icon theme.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

But /usr/share/pixmaps could or should be a fallback option.

[Chris S. (cszikszoy)]

GIO might be able to give us better results than searching various paths. GLib.AppInfo has a constructor that you can pass the commandline name of the program. If you can get that, AppInfo.Icon will give you the GLib.Icon, and I've already written something in DrawingService.cs to get the correct pixmap for a GLib.Icon.

[Chris S. (cszikszoy)]

I did some digging in the window matcher and I see now why it isn't picking up icons for those files. I haven't worked out the exact fix yet, but I'm on the right track.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1241194/iconfixing.png

[Ben (ben2talk)]

A note about where to add custom icons would be nice - then, even if docky finds the correct icon, I can use custom icons when I like by copying and renaming them.

[burkaygenc (burkaygenc)]

I have created an application launcher for grooveshark in chromium 8. Then the next time I ran chromium from docky, the application icon appeared to be the grooveshark favicon. Now everytime I run chromium, I get the grooveshark icon. More annoyingly, when I hover over the icon, the label reads "Grooveshark - Listen to free music online...." even when the site has nothing to do with grooveshark. Somehow docky assumes every chromium window displays grooveshark web site.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

@burkaygenc: your problem is not the same as that on this (fixed) bug. Comments here will be ignored. See bug 488958 for more info on your bug.