Emacs 23 icon not picked up in launcher

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Binary package hint: unity

The emacs window shows up with the generic “?” icon in the Unity lanucher, although it has the right title (GNU Emacs 23).

This seems to be because the Icon field of /usr/share/applications/emacs23.desktop specifies a full path to the icon (/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs23.svg) rather than using the icon name. Replacing the Icon specification with just
"""
Icon=emacs23
"""
results in the correct icon showing up.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-7.18-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,ccp,move,resize,place,decoration,imgjpeg,mousepoll,session,text,vpswitch,workarounds,commands,dbus,gnomecompat,png,regex,svg,animation,resizeinfo,wall,animationaddon,blur,wobbly,expo,neg,fade,scale,scaleaddon,staticswitcher]
Date: Thu Dec 2 12:14:57 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: LENOVO 7465CTO
PciDisplay: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
ProcEnviron:
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 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
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ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.37-7-generic root=UUID=09f345b2-726e-4ee5-ba1e-4b380f09595f ro quiet splash
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SourcePackage: unity
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 03/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6DET63WW (3.13 )
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dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6DET63WW(3.13):bd03/10/2010:svnLENOVO:pn7465CTO:pvrThinkPadX200s:rvnLENOVO:rn7465CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
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dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
system: distro = Ubuntu, architecture = x86_64, kernel = 2.6.37-7-generic