Changed app icons but new icon not displaying in Favorites and on panel

[Geoffrey Allan Plauche]

I changed icons for some Google Chrome desktop apps. The new icons display properly in the Internet pane of UNR, but the Favorites pane and the top panel still display the old icons.

[Travis B. Hartwell (nafai)]

I can't fully reproduce this.

Here's what I did to attempt to reproduce:

1) On a page I wanted standalone, I chose "Create Application
Shortcuts" from the edit menu of Chromium.

2) I chose "Applications Menu" as the location to create the
shortcut.

3) I added the resulting icon to favorites by right-clicking on it and
choosing "Add to Favorites"

4) To change the icon, I edited the resulting desktop file in
~/.local/share/applications

5) I had to log out and log back on for the icon to be updated.

The correct icon was shown both in the Internet pane and in the
Favorites pane. I notice, however that the new icon is not shown in
the panel. I did a test in my regular gnome session and this is also
the case here.

I think that part works this way because you are still just using an
instance of the Chrome browser and it uses the favicon for the visited
web site as its icon, and so it updates its icon at runtime.

Could you give me the steps you follow to reproduce the case where the
Favorites icon is not correct? And, to verify, you are using the
default Ubuntu Netbook Edition session and not the 2D session? Also,
are you on Lucid?

Thanks!

[Geoffrey Allan Plauche (veritasnoctis)]

I'm running default Easy Peasy 1.6, so I assume that's the 3D UNR based on Lucid.

I followed steps 1-2. Then I placed in /home/user/.icons various higher res icons I've found on the web for various Google services and other sites. Then in the menu editor (System > Preferences > Main Menu) I edited the properties of the app, clicking on the icon to browse for and select the one I wanted. The new icon displayed properly in the Internet menu of UNR. Then I added the app to favorites. But the icon used in Favorites is the old one, not the new one I selected. I've had this happen with several Chrome desktop apps. Rebooting the computer doesn't help. Note that this method used to work in previous versions of UNR in Easy Peasy.

[Geoffrey Allan Plauche (veritasnoctis)]

Also, I remember being able to edit the Favorites menu in Main Menu in past versions of Easy Peasy. I don't know why this was removed.

[Tor Klingberg (tor-klingberg)]

I think this is the same as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/505600
as well as some other reports of the same problem.