non-existent icons are referenced: category-available and category-installed

[Matt Fischer]

This is an issue that exists in oneiric and precise. When you start unity (after setsid unity) you can see in the logging that there are two missing icon files:

11.10 message:
WARN 2012-02-02 14:02:56 unity.iconloader IconLoader.cpp:509 Unable to load contents of file:///usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/places/svg/category-installed.svg: Error opening file: No such file or directory
WARN 2012-02-02 14:02:56 unity.iconloader IconLoader.cpp:509 Unable to load contents of file:///usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/places/svg/category-available.svg: Error opening file: No such file or directory

12.04 message:
WARN 2012-02-14 10:38:46 unity.iconloader IconLoader.cpp:492 Unable to load icon file:///usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/places/svg/category-available.svg at size 24: Error opening file: No such file or directory
WARN 2012-02-14 10:38:46 unity.iconloader IconLoader.cpp:492 Unable to load icon file:///usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/places/svg/category-available.svg at size 24: Error opening file: No such file or directory

The issue occurs in runner.vala::populate_categories().

This bug was partially fixed in commit 220 in the daemon.vala file, but this file was missed.

See here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity-lens-applications/trunk/revision/220/src/daemon.vala

I will attach a patch shortly.

unity-lens-applications:
  Installed: 5.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 5.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 5.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Based on neil patel's earlier change, I think the patch above will solve this problem.

[Wagner Pires (coyotefisico)]

How do I use this patch to solve my icons problem?

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Wagner,

As far as I can tell this is a spurious warning and there is no actual issue. If you are having problems with your icons, I suggest you file a new bug or use askubuntu.com. This fix will not be useful for this issue until someone packages the patch up.

[Michal Hruby (mhr3)]

Thanks for the patch Matt, I created a branch and merge proposed it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-applications - 5.6.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-lens-applications (5.6.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - unity-applications-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in
      dee_sequence_model_free_row() (LP: #916356)
    - Can't launch applications from the launcher (LP: #938505)
    - Unity Dash should support Keywords parameter in .desktop (formerly X
      -GNOME-Keywords or X-AppInstall-Keywords) (LP: #941231)
    - Dash - Currently the app lens doesn't show applications that are
      available for purchase (LP: #916121)
    - non-existent icons are referenced: category-available and category-
      installed (LP: #932212)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:52:14 +0100