launchers do not show localized icon

Bug #510934 reported by Chris S.
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Docky
Fix Released
Low
Chris S.
Nautilus
Expired
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus does not display the icon of a launcher properly. The Desktop Entry Specification (here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.html ) indicates that the Icon key in a .desktop file is of type 'localestring', meaning that the localized icon should be preferred.

To observe this, take a .desktop file, set Icon=gtk-cancel, and Icon[<locale>]=gtk-apply. Nautilus will show the 'gtk-cancel' icon, where gnome-panel will show the 'gtk-apply' icon.

using karmic, nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3

Sidenote: this seems relevant:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/336679

But, I don't think the resolution of lp:336679 was the correct thing to do, according to the fdo desktop entry spec.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Chris S. (cszikszoy) wrote :

I will certainly file upstream. I've already spoken with Alex Larsson (lead nautilus dev) about it and he's confirmed that it is a bug in nautilus.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Chris S. (cszikszoy)
Changed in docky:
assignee: nobody → Chris S. (cszikszoy)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
Robert Dyer (psybers)
Changed in docky:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Expired
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