Launcher gets confused about which icons relate to which applications

[jasonmartens]

Occasionally, I will click on the LibreOffice Calc icon on Launcher, and it activates the empathy chat window. I've attached a screenshot where you can see the context menu is clearly confused about which actions to show. I have been unable to determine what causes it to get into this state at this time.

This is on 12.10, amd64.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in unity.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dah bien-hwa (dahbien-hwa)]

For me this happens with self-created .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications.

I have two files in there.

One was copied from the other, but both Name and and Icon in both are different

When I now try to start the last created application, it shows the correct icon, but the wrong application name. I have changed the file gradually, so maybe the folder was indexed at a time when the Name was wrong but the icon right (although I actually changed in the other order as far as I remember, first Name and then Icon). Is there any way to tell the Dash to re-scan the desktop files?