Some app icons in zesty unity8 livecd aren't found

Bug #1669913 reported by Michael Terry
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Bug Description

If you boot the livecd and switch to the unity8 session, you'll note that some icons don't have icons.

For example, gucharmap and font-viewer.

You can test this locally by running "ubuntu-app-info gucharmap" and noting there is no icon path.

I looked into this a bit, and I think it's because Unity 7 uses GTK+ to lookup icons. And its default algorithm looks in Adwaita, gnome, and hicolor as fallbacks. Unity 8 uses Ubuntu App Launch, which only looks in hicolor and Humanity.

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Michael Terry (mterry)
tags: added: unity8-desktop
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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Hmm, after some further testing, some other app icons still aren't found after the attached branch is applied.

Digging into it.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-app-launch - 0.10+17.04.20170310-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-app-launch (0.10+17.04.20170310-0ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * Removed click related manual tests and correct-job-type tests which
    no longer seems to apply

  [ Larry Price ]
  * Add all icon directories to search paths regardless of context. (LP:
    #1669913)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Use the "mir" interface (not the "unity8" interface) to decide if an
    app supports Mir or not.

 -- Rodney Dawes <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:17:03 +0000

Changed in ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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