wrong gnome-control-center icon displayed on dash

[Sam_]

Reproducable.
Call gnome-control-center via alt+f2, it's displayed as audio icon on dash.

TEST CASE:
1. Press ALT-F2 to open "Run a command"
2. If gnome-control-center is not displayed on the list enter "gnome-control-center" in the search field and compare the icon with what it should be.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.0.2-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 23 20:36:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

I can confirm this but on 2 of my test system it displays the 'Display' icon instead of the g-c-c icon and not the sound icon. Setting to triaged/low because it doesn't affect functionality (the name of the app is displayed below the icon which avoids any confusion)

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Thanks for triage Jean-Baptiste and yes Sebastien also views the 'display' icon.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/801252/comments/3
Maybe it depends if a test system was an upgrade from Natty or fresh installation.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It's an unity issue, it's likely that it matches on commands and the capplets now are called "gnome-control-center <panel>" so several .desktops match "gnome-control-center", unity should favorite exact matching there

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Issue fixed here with:
$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installiert: 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5
  Kandidat: 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy unity
unity:
  Installiert: 4.4.0-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 4.4.0-0ubuntu1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 4.4.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It is not fixed on my side and displays the 'Display' applet icon.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

That's weird. Are there any differences?
$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme
ubuntu-mono-dark

$ nano /usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=System Settings
Icon=preferences-system
Exec=gnome-control-center --overview
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;System;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-control-center
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=shell
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.1.3
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-control-center-2.0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no, it's not weird, it just display the icon of the first desktop entry matching it hits, you just get lucky and currently that's being the right one for you

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Yep, you're right. Alt+F2 still displays the audio icon. Couldn't find a file where it assigns it to audio icon; probably wrong path due to less knowledge.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

No icons at all when running via alt+f2 or dash search (active blur).
unity:
  Installed: 4.8.2-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 4.8.2-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 4.8.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Now it displays the 'appearance' icon with alt+f2.
unity:
  Installed: 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4.12.0-0ubuntu2 0

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Still the case on Precise.
unity:
  Installed: 4.24.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4.24.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4.24.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Milestone 5.12+ instead 4.8?
unity:
  Installed: 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 5.8.0-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 5.8.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Sorry folks, but, as part of the bug clean up ahead of 16.04 LTS, I'm marking this as invalid because it affects an Ubuntu release which is now unsupported. If you can still recreate this bug in a supported release, please do open a new bug and we can triage it for consideration in the 16.04 LTS development cycle.