SlickEdit cannot create fully functional icon on Unity bar

[Andrey Gelman]

I run the famous (proprietary) code editor: SlickEdit (with license).
Run from the desktop shortcut, or from the commandline, it creates the icon on Unity bar, that behaves Ok.
However, if I select "keep in launcher", the icon will stay, but it will not be able to actually launch something.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Wed Apr 18 17:38:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-03-26 (23 days ago)

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

This _might_ be a problem with SlickEdit, not Unity.

[Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman)]

On 04/19/2012 01:29 AM, kroq-gar78 wrote:
> This _might_ be a problem with SlickEdit, not Unity.
>
Possibly. I think any problem with anything _might_ be considered a
problem with anything, but Unity. Especially, if you follow an advice by
some and don't use Unity.
Eventually, OS is an host. If your guests don't feel comfortable, you
have a bug.
Don't provide me explanations; you think Ubuntu has problems in
interoperability with SlickEdit, contact them !
Work together to make things "just work", you know ...

[Gary M (garym)]

Is this a duplicate of bug 753305 or bug 765466?

[Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman)]

Yes.
Actually the 2 bugs you mention and 'mine' are all the same.
The only reasonable way to get a 'viable' icon in the Unity launcher is to
create a quicklist (*.desktop) file.
This is true for SlickEdit, Eclipse, Skype, and many more applications.
(!)
Additional issue, that should be inserted under the same umbrella:
Sometimes, a stupid notification window of the style "Could not open a
file" creates its own icon in the launcher. This icon can be "kept in
launcher". As expected, clicking this icon launches nothing.

Generally, the "Keep in launcher" thing is broken, because
- there are many applications it cannot 'catch'
- there are applications it should not catch, and it does
- in any case you cannot configure anything more than trivial functionality
- pressing the mouse wheel should open a new instance of the same
application, but many applications require commandline parameters to open
another instance, rather than activate the existing one - you cannot
configure it. Should I go on ?

Thanks,
Andrey Gelman

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Gary M <email address hidden> wrote:

> Is this a duplicate of bug 753305 or bug 765466?
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984968
>
> Title:
> SlickEdit cannot create fully functional icon on Unity bar
>
> Status in Unity:
> New
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I run the famous (proprietary) code editor: SlickEdit (with license).
> Run from the desktop shortcut, or from the commandline, it creates the
> icon on Unity bar, that behaves Ok.
> However, if I select "keep in launcher", the icon will stay, but it will
> not be able to actually launch something.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: unity 4.28.0-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> CompizPlugins:
> [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
> Date: Wed Apr 18 17:38:30 2012
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64
> (20111011)
> SourcePackage: unity
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-03-26 (23 days ago)
>
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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I'll mark this one duplicate of bug 753305 then. thanks for your bug report.