Missing icon from dock and dash

[manfreed]

The usual transmission icon is not visible in the dock, and the dash, instead the placeholder icons are visible (grey rectangle with question mark, paper icon)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: transmission-qt 2.82-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-1.4-generic 3.11.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 15 22:41:04 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-29 (108 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-24 (52 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca (luizluca)]

Hello,

This is an easy fix. transmission-qt.desktop reference a non existing transmission-qt icon. It should use the same icon as gtk interface. So, the .desktop file should be updated to have:

Icon=transmission

Instead of:

Icon=transmission-qt

The icon is provided by transmission-common. Please, fix this problem in repo package.

As a workarround, simply modify it yourself, editing /usr/share/applications/transmission-qt.desktop as root or:

 cp /usr/share/applications/transmission-qt.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
 sed -i -e '/Icon/{s/transmission-qt/transmission/}' ~/.local/share/applications/transmission-qt.desktop

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's an upstream bug and was fixed for 0.90 see https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5685

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Reopening as this bug was not fixed in Ubuntu

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 2.84-3ubuntu3

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transmission (2.84-3ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/lp1212835_changeset_14374: Take #14374 from upstream to
    make transmission-qt get an icon. (LP: #1212835)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:32:29 +0000