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.

[awissu (avvissu)]

I confirm this bug on openSUSE TW.
From journalctl log fetching:

[CRITICAL 12:34:09.195527] [ApplicationDockItem:576] file:///usr/share/applications/io.elementary.code.desktop-RPMDELETE: No such file or directory
[WARN 12:34:09.280086] [Utils:119] An error occurred while retrieving file information «/home/awissu/.config/plank/dock1/launchers/.goutputstream-L3YG90»: No such file or directory

cat ~/.config/plank/dock1/launchers/io.elementary.code.desktop

#This file auto-generated by Plank.
#2021-09-08T09:50:15+0000

[PlankDockItemPreferences]
#The uri for this item.
Launcher=file:///usr/share/applications/io.elementary.code.desktop-RPMDELETE

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package plank - 0.11.89-4

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plank (0.11.89-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Mike Gabriel ]
  * debian/control:
    + Bump Standards-Version: to 4.6.0. No changes needed.
  * debian/patches:
    + Add 1001_fix-vala-doc-build.patch. Fix vala-doc generation. Recently,
      image file format has been changed from .png to .svg files. (Closes:
      #997520).
  * debian/libplank-doc.install:
    + Install API doc files to /usr/share/doc/plank/html/.
  * debian/libplank-doc.doc-base:
    + Add file. Register libplank API with doc-base.
  * debian/watch:
    + Switch to file format version 4.

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * debian/patches:
    + Add 0002_fix_disappearing_dock_items.patch (LP: #1760433).

 -- Mike Gabriel <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:11:07 +0100