Icons disappear from Plank after updates.

[Richard]

Is this normal behaviour for Plank to remove icons after updating the system?
Yesterday Firefox, Chromium and Libre-office got updates and during the updating process those 3 icons were removed.

I had to put them back in place manually.

I'm running this on Arch, Xfce.

[Julian Raschke (jlnr)]

I've only experienced this with apps updated via snapd. Every time a new version of IntelliJ IDEA is released, the icon disappears from my Dock. Apps installed via apt or flatpak have been unaffected so far.

[Tyler Jones (jylertones)]

There's a thread of Manjaro linux users who have the same problem:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/icons-dissappearing-from-plank-after-updates/43740

What's suspected is that when applications are upgraded, the shortcut is removed and added again in a way that Plank only thinks that a removal has occurred. The best known workaround is to create a copy of the launchers, or to re-add the affected applications to the dock after update.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Expected workaround https://git.launchpad.net/plank/commit/?id=0a842b45dae54c3457f55c7db39f12155050e75a

[Roman (thezub)]

Is the above commit in the version? I still experience this bug and it's a pain in the ass. Ubuntu 18.04.

[Juan (zubonto)]

I see this commit mentioned above "Increase delay for auto-removal of broken/unavailable applications to 1 min" is included in the latest release (0.11.89).

I still notice this annoying behaviour in Xubuntu LTS 20.04 with package 0.11.89.
Happens when an upgrade happens via snapd or apt.

Package: plank
Version: 0.11.89-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu

[Bill (franksmcb) (franksmcb)]

This is still an issue with updated snaps occurring on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and 20.10 running plank 11.89-1.