giovanni@shrimp:~$ dpkg-query -l 'thunderbird*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versione Descrizione
+++-=======================================-=======================================-==============================================================================================
ii thunderbird 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
ii thunderbird-globalmenu 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 Unity appmenu integration for Thunderbird
un thunderbird-gnome-support <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-locale-en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-locale-en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-locale-it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
giovanni@shrimp:~$
And this is the setting of the launcher. You can see the /home/giovanni/.local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop desktop file, that contains the quicklist.
I removed Thunderbird icon from launcher, then installed missing language packages
giovanni@shrimp:~$ dpkg-query -l 'thunderbird*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Nome Versione Descrizione
+++-=======================================-=======================================-==============================================================================================
ii thunderbird 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support
ii thunderbird-globalmenu 3.1.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 Unity appmenu integration for Thunderbird
un thunderbird-gnome-support <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird English language/region package
ii thunderbird-locale-en-us 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird English language/region package
ii thunderbird-locale-it 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird Italian language/region package
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
un thunderbird-thunderbird-locale-it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
giovanni@shrimp:~$
Logout and login, Added Thunderbird to launcher and the thunderbird.desktop file is not here, while the icon is in the launcher and I pressed "Stick on launcher"
More on this bug. I found why this happens.
This is the system without italian localization
giovanni@shrimp:~$ dpkg-query -l 'thunderbird*' Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Inst/ Conf-files/ Unpacked/ halF-conf/ Half-inst/ trig-aWait/ Trig-pend /Reinst- required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= =-===== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======- ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= === -0ubuntu3 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support globalmenu 3.1.9+nobinonly -0ubuntu3 Unity appmenu integration for Thunderbird gnome-support <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) locale- en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) locale- en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) locale- it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) thunderbird- locale- en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) thunderbird- locale- en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) thunderbird- locale- it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Nome Versione Descrizione
+++-===
ii thunderbird 3.1.9+nobinonly
ii thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
giovanni@shrimp:~$
And this is the setting of the launcher. You can see the /home/giovanni/ .local/ share/applicati ons/thunderbird .desktop desktop file, that contains the quicklist.
giovanni@shrimp:~$ gsettings get com.canonical. Unity.Launcher favorites home.desktop' , 'google- chrome. desktop' , '/home/ giovanni/ bin/unity/ CustomSSH. desktop' , '/home/ giovanni/ .local/ share/applicati ons/thunderbird .desktop' , 'gedit.desktop', 'virtualbox- ose.desktop' , 'filezilla. desktop' , 'libreoffice- writer. desktop' , 'libreoffice- calc.desktop' , 'ubuntu- software- center. desktop' ]
['nautilus-
I removed Thunderbird icon from launcher, then installed missing language packages
giovanni@shrimp:~$ dpkg-query -l 'thunderbird*' Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Inst/ Conf-files/ Unpacked/ halF-conf/ Half-inst/ trig-aWait/ Trig-pend /Reinst- required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= =-===== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======- ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= === -0ubuntu3 mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support globalmenu 3.1.9+nobinonly -0ubuntu3 Unity appmenu integration for Thunderbird gnome-support <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) locale- en-gb 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird English language/region package locale- en-us 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird English language/region package locale- it 1:3.1.7ubuntu1 Thunderbird Italian language/region package thunderbird- locale- en-gb <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) thunderbird- locale- en-us <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile) thunderbird- locale- it <none> (nessuna descrizione disponibile)
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Nome Versione Descrizione
+++-===
ii thunderbird 3.1.9+nobinonly
ii thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
ii thunderbird-
ii thunderbird-
ii thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
un thunderbird-
giovanni@shrimp:~$
Logout and login, Added Thunderbird to launcher and the thunderbird.desktop file is not here, while the icon is in the launcher and I pressed "Stick on launcher"
giovanni@shrimp:~$ gsettings get com.canonical. Unity.Launcher favorites home.desktop' , 'google- chrome. desktop' , '/home/ giovanni/ bin/unity/ CustomSSH. desktop' , 'gedit.desktop', 'virtualbox- ose.desktop' , 'filezilla. desktop' , 'libreoffice- writer. desktop' , 'libreoffice- calc.desktop' , 'ubuntu- software- center. desktop' ]
['nautilus-
giovanni@shrimp:~$
Now you can see the difference, and why I can't see
giovanni@shrimp:~$ diff -u /home/giovanni/ .local/ share/applicati ons/thunderbird .desktop /usr/share/ applications/ thunderbird. desktop .local/ share/applicati ons/thunderbird .desktop 2011-04-19 06:54:44.068614817 +0200 applications/ thunderbird. desktop 2011-04-11 02:23:53.000000000 +0200 ug]=ئېلخەت دېتالى zh_CN]= 邮件新闻客户端 zh_TW]= 郵件用戶端 Desktop- Shortcuts= ComposeUL; ContactsUL
--- /home/giovanni/
+++ /usr/share/
@@ -58,15 +58,3 @@
GenericName[
GenericName[
GenericName[
-
-
-X-Ayatana-
-[ComposeUL Shortcut Group]
-Name=Compose a New Message
-Exec=thunderbird -compose
-OnlyShowIn=Unity
-
-[ContactsUL Shortcut Group]
-Name=Contacts
-Exec=thunderbird -addressbook
-OnlyShowIn=Unity
giovanni@shrimp:~$