Icons disappear from Plank after updates.

Bug #1760433 reported by Richard
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Bug Description

Is this normal behaviour for Plank to remove icons after updating the system?
Yesterday Firefox, Chromium and Libre-office got updates and during the updating process those 3 icons were removed.

I had to put them back in place manually.

I'm running this on Arch, Xfce.

description: updated
summary: - Icons dissappear from Plank after updates.
+ Icons disappear from Plank after updates.
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Julian Raschke (jlnr) wrote :

I've only experienced this with apps updated via snapd. Every time a new version of IntelliJ IDEA is released, the icon disappears from my Dock. Apps installed via apt or flatpak have been unaffected so far.

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Tyler Jones (jylertones) wrote :

There's a thread of Manjaro linux users who have the same problem:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/icons-dissappearing-from-plank-after-updates/43740

What's suspected is that when applications are upgraded, the shortcut is removed and added again in a way that Plank only thinks that a removal has occurred. The best known workaround is to create a copy of the launchers, or to re-add the affected applications to the dock after update.

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Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) wrote :
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Roman (thezub) wrote :

Is the above commit in the version? I still experience this bug and it's a pain in the ass. Ubuntu 18.04.

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Juan (zubonto) wrote :

I see this commit mentioned above "Increase delay for auto-removal of broken/unavailable applications to 1 min" is included in the latest release (0.11.89).

I still notice this annoying behaviour in Xubuntu LTS 20.04 with package 0.11.89.
Happens when an upgrade happens via snapd or apt.

Package: plank
Version: 0.11.89-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu

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Bill (franksmcb) (franksmcb) wrote :

This is still an issue with updated snaps occurring on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and 20.10 running plank 11.89-1.

Changed in plank:
status: New → Confirmed
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awissu (avvissu) wrote :

I confirm this bug on openSUSE TW.
From journalctl log fetching:

[CRITICAL 12:34:09.195527] [ApplicationDockItem:576] file:///usr/share/applications/io.elementary.code.desktop-RPMDELETE: No such file or directory
[WARN 12:34:09.280086] [Utils:119] An error occurred while retrieving file information «/home/awissu/.config/plank/dock1/launchers/.goutputstream-L3YG90»: No such file or directory

cat ~/.config/plank/dock1/launchers/io.elementary.code.desktop

#This file auto-generated by Plank.
#2021-09-08T09:50:15+0000

[PlankDockItemPreferences]
#The uri for this item.
Launcher=file:///usr/share/applications/io.elementary.code.desktop-RPMDELETE

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Lucy Llewellyn (lucyllewy) wrote :
Changed in plank (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: bionic focal hirsute impish
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "disappearing-entries-on-updates-fix.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

tags: added: patch
Changed in plank (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in plank (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package plank - 0.11.89-4

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plank (0.11.89-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Mike Gabriel ]
  * debian/control:
    + Bump Standards-Version: to 4.6.0. No changes needed.
  * debian/patches:
    + Add 1001_fix-vala-doc-build.patch. Fix vala-doc generation. Recently,
      image file format has been changed from .png to .svg files. (Closes:
      #997520).
  * debian/libplank-doc.install:
    + Install API doc files to /usr/share/doc/plank/html/.
  * debian/libplank-doc.doc-base:
    + Add file. Register libplank API with doc-base.
  * debian/watch:
    + Switch to file format version 4.

  [ Martin Wimpress ]
  * debian/patches:
    + Add 0002_fix_disappearing_dock_items.patch (LP: #1760433).

 -- Mike Gabriel <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:11:07 +0100

Changed in plank (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Sean Cortright (srighter91586) wrote :

How do you download this patch on ubuntu budgie 21.10 I'm having the same exact issue.

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