misleading unison icons

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

the unison icons are misleading. Under newer ubuntu releases as natty or oneiric, the default version of unison is 2.32, and the older 2.27 is available, while on Ubuntu LTS only 2.27 is available.

So when using Unison between machines with latest Ubuntu and latest LTS Ubuntu, you always need to install the 2.27 on the newer machine. Not a problem at all.

But then, both versions use the same Icon, the Unison "U" with the label "Unison". In the graphically oriented Desktops you can't distinguish them. Under the old gnome as available under ubuntu natty, this was not that much of a problem since the help hint (when moving the mouse over the icon) gave a hint about the version.

Unfortunately, under oneiric's new (horrible) desktops, that (awful) new "Dash home", you can't distinguish them anymore. You never know for what version the U icon stands for. So please give the versions different icons.

Furthermore, for some unknown reason the (buggy) Ubuntu Software Center does not even show the U symbol for the 2.27.57-gtk package, but a box with tools. Something is wrong with the process of determing the icons. (And the software center does not find the commandline versions at all...)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unison 2.32.52-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 18 14:42:00 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: unison
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-09-14 (34 days ago)

[Felix Möller (felix-derklecks)]

The first problem is similar to bug #1103446 AFAICS.

Your version issue should be solved by right clicking on the icon in the dash, then you get detailed information which contains the version as well.