Wrong icon for "Network Servers" when added to Panel

[Stephen Gornick]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

After I add an icon for "Network Servers" on my desktop, I dragged the icon to a Panel. The icon that was displayed on the panel was the default generic icon (looks like a square on a corkscrew). The launcher on the Desktop does display the correct icon so it is just the icon displayed on the Panel that is incorrect.

Steps to reproduce:

  $ gconf-editor
    apps -> nautilus -> desktop
    Mark the checkbox next to network_icon_visible

This will put an icon titled "Network Servers" on the desktop.

Then drag the icon to the panel.

The icon displayed for this launcher will differ from the one displayed on the desktop.

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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy (RC + latest)

[Stephen Gornick (sgornick)]

I just learned that although the icon gets copied to the panel, it cannot be launched. When I attempt to launch it I get a dialog titled "Error" that contains the message: "Could not launch application. Not a launchable item".

However other icons created the same way (e.g., Computer, User's Home that were added to desktop using gconf-editor, then copied to panel) can be launched, so this problem is specific to the Network Servers launcher.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

[Stephen Gornick (sgornick)]

Hi Pedro,

You did not mark this as a duplicate nor did you reference a Bug # that you believe this to be a duplicate of.

I just did another extensive search and still cannot find any other bugs that reference either how the icon that is displayed on the panel for the "Network Servers" icon is invlid, nor how attempts to launch that icon result in a "Not a launchable item" message.

So that this report doesn't disappear, I am changing the status back to "new". If you have any more information about this bug, please share.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We have hundreds of bug to deal with and find the exactly duplicate might take some time. Anyways it's related to upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143580; thanks.

[Stephen Gornick (sgornick)]

I guess this can be marked as "resolved", as the icon can no longer be dragged to a panel.

In Lucid, 10.04 LTS, a Network icon made to be visible on the Desktop (via $ gconf-editor
    apps -> nautilus -> desktop ) cannot be dragged to a panel. As described above, other icons added the same way, e.g., computer (computer_icon_visible), home (home_icon_visible) are draggable to the panel, but the icon added for network (network_icon_visible) is not draggable to the panel.