No icon in Unity launcher

Bug #890243 reported by Matthew Goode
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
spyder (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
spyder (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

There is no icon in the Unity launcher for Spyder. In addition to this there is a placeholder icon in the Unity dash. See attached screenshot. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 through VirtualBox. Due to proxy problems I am unable to submit this report using ubuntu-bug.

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Matthew Goode (happyhouse19) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in spyder (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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der_vegi (m-may) wrote :

Same here on a fully updated 11.10 with Unity 3d.

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Ghislain Vaillant (ghisvail) wrote :

I managed to fix it manually by editing the spyder.desktop, which is missing an icon entry.

1) download the icon from the project page: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/logo?cct=1322729688
2) move it to /usr/share/icons/spyder.png
3) add line "Icon=spyder.png" to /usr/share/applications/spyder.desktop

Would it be difficult to edit the existing package with this fix ?

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Peter Würtz (pwuertz) wrote :

What about adding this line?

Icon=/usr/share/pyshared/spyderlib/images/spyder.svg

The file is provided by spyderlib, which is installed in any case when installing spyder.

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bwanamarko (bwanamarko) wrote :

@Peter that works, thanks!

Changed in spyder (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in spyder (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package spyder - 2.1.9-1

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spyder (2.1.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Imported Upstream version 2.1.9 (Closes: #663235)
  * bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.3
    - debian/copyright fixed with cme
    - debian/control fixed with cme
  * debian/patches
    - 0002-feature-forwarded-add-icon-to-desktop-file.patch (new)
      (Closes: #665761)

 -- Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel <email address hidden> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:11:03 +0200

Changed in spyder (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Gert Kok (yawarakaimono) wrote :

The icon had been visible, but after some hassling with 3d-drivers etc it is not showing anymore, neither in dash nor in the unity launcher bar

even with this line in spyder.desktop:

Icon=/usr/share/pyshared/spyderlib/images/spyder.svg

in dash, 2 spyders without icon are showing up, spyder and Spyder

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Gert Kok (yawarakaimono) wrote :

ps

the 2 entries for spyder are in thee Applications area

the capitalized Spyder does not launch anything

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Gert Kok (yawarakaimono) wrote :

Problem of #8 solved.
There was another spyder.desktop (and a Spyder.desktop) in ~/.local/share/applications without the Icon= line.
Maybe put in that folder by ubuntu-tweak, there is a line in these files:
X-Ubuntu-Tweak=true

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