Activity log for bug #1575062

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2016-04-26 09:01:37 David Planella bug added bug
2016-04-26 09:03:41 David Planella description Currently this package ships a .desktop file with the same icon as the one on the 'ubuntu-sdk-ide' package, yet it executes a different binary. This can be extremely confusing to app developers, which a) won't know which icon to choose when launching the IDE and b) won't know either that a different installation of the IDE will be launched depending on the icon. In addition to that, a third package, 'qtcreator' ships a different icon that launches the qtcreator binary. $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-sdk-ide.desktop ubuntu-sdk-ide: /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-sdk-ide.desktop # Calls 'Exec=qtcreator %F' $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/ubuntusdk.desktop qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu: /usr/share/applications/ubuntusdk.desktop # Calls 'Exec=/usr/bin/ubuntu-sdk-ide %F' $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/qtcreator.desktop qtcreator: /usr/share/applications/qtcreator.desktop # Calls 'Exec=qtcreator %F' I'd suggest simply dropping the ubuntusdk.desktop icon from the qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu package. Currently this package ships a .desktop file with the same icon as the one on the 'ubuntu-sdk-ide' package, yet it executes a different binary. This can be extremely confusing to app developers, which a) won't know which icon to choose when launching the IDE and b) won't know either that a different installation of the IDE will be launched depending on the icon. In addition to that, a third package, 'qtcreator' ships a different icon that launches the qtcreator binary. $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-sdk-ide.desktop ubuntu-sdk-ide: /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-sdk-ide.desktop # Calls 'Exec=qtcreator %F' $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/ubuntusdk.desktop qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu: /usr/share/applications/ubuntusdk.desktop # Calls 'Exec=/usr/bin/ubuntu-sdk-ide %F' $ dpkg -S /usr/share/applications/qtcreator.desktop qtcreator: /usr/share/applications/qtcreator.desktop # Calls 'Exec=qtcreator %F' I'd suggest simply dropping the ubuntusdk.desktop icon from the qtcreator-plugin-ubuntu package. See the effect on the screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/F80YO