kubuntu kde4 intrepid kickoff menu, items added to favorites dont keep correct icon, generic gear shown

Confirming in latest Intrepid.

Still happening for me. Fully updated intrepid

Icons added to Desktop from kickoff menu of some non-KDE applications are unusable, as like as firefox, synaptic...
I initially reported it in other bug report, but it was marked as duplicated of this.

I agree with EagleScreen. Dragging icons from kickoff to the desktop or folderview is currently broken. Manually creating launchers works.

Same problem here adding Firefox to favourites on Intrepid.

Same problem here - non-KDE4 apps are the victims

Just tried quanta plus which is a KDE3 app.

Both GTK applications as well as KDE 3 applications are victims. Tried Firefox and Amarok. Confirming non-KDE-4 diagnosis.

I never had this problem until after recent update. Non-kde app has this problem. kde3 apps has no such problem . Uptil kubuntu alpha5 (or maybe alpha6) there was no such problem.

On lancelot, this is no more bug. It's on Kicker as well as classic menu.

Well... no... still persist... when I try to add, for example, Firefox to favorites or the plasma panel, it shows only the gears icon. And wort, in the panel the desktop icon access is badly created, since it does not launch Firefox... it creates nothing...
In favorites, does work... but without icon.

Using Kubuntu intrepid beta latest.

This is the situation for me:
kde4 apps (like kopete) it all works; dragging icon to desktop / panel, right-click -> add to desktop/ panel/ favourites
non-kde apps (like thunderbird) nothing works; all the above mentioned actions creates a 0 byte .desktop-file with a gear-icon, that opens kate (with an error message stating it can't read the file) when clicking it.
kde3 apps (like amarok) only favourites works; everything but "add to favourites" makes an empty file, like with non-kde apps, while "add to favourites" adds a gear icon to favourites that opens amarok when clicked.

Using kubuntu intrepid, beta with latest updates.

I have just slightly changed the description of the bug (favourites->favorites) - before I reported the bug, I had searched the database for quite a while, because I didn't believe that it hadn't been reported before, but apparently using the wrong keywords.
Using the US english spelling might help.

I have some information concerning the bug:

The problem seems to affect only applications that have their desktop files in the directory /usr/share/applications (like Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.), while apps that have a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/kde4 or /usr/share/applications/kde work fine.

I have watched
  .kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
and it seems, that the url given for the desktop files is broken. While for the working icons, the Url is
  Url=file:///usr/share/applications/kde4/ksysguard.desktop
for the inoperative icons it is
  Url=firefox.desktop

When I kill plasma, manually fix the entry in plasma-appletsrc, and restart plasma, the icons work.

I can confirm this as the exactly Behavior I am Having with latest Kubuntu
Beta.

2008/10/10 Olaf Lenz <email address hidden>

> I have just slightly changed the description of the bug
> (favourites->favorites) - before I reported the bug, I had searched the
> database for quite a while, because I didn't believe that it hadn't been
> reported before, but apparently using the wrong keywords.
> Using the US english spelling might help.
>
> I have some information concerning the bug:
>
> The problem seems to affect only applications that have their desktop
> files in the directory /usr/share/applications (like Firefox,
> Thunderbird, etc.), while apps that have a desktop file in
> /usr/share/applications/kde4 or /usr/share/applications/kde work fine.
>
> I have watched
> .kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
> and it seems, that the url given for the desktop files is broken. While for
> the working icons, the Url is
> Url=file:///usr/share/applications/kde4/ksysguard.desktop
> for the inoperative icons it is
> Url=firefox.desktop
>
> When I kill plasma, manually fix the entry in plasma-appletsrc, and
> restart plasma, the icons work.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - kubuntu kde4 intrepid kickoff menu, items added to favourites dont keep
> correct icon, generic gear shown
> + kubuntu kde4 intrepid kickoff menu, items added to favorites dont keep
> correct icon, generic gear shown
>
> --
> kubuntu kde4 intrepid kickoff menu, items added to favorites dont keep
> correct icon, generic gear shown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254688
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

Manually fixing ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc only works for icons I add to the desktop for me. Icons I add to the panel, and then manually edit, just disappear.

Hi all,

after reading Olaf description I tried the following:

1.- create a new directory in /usr/share/applications/ the name is not important I called mine 'others'. You need to be root for this: 'sudo mkdir /usr/share/applications/<dirname>'
2.- move all .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ to this new directory: 'sudo mv /usr/share/applications/*.desktop /usr/share/applications/<dirname>'
3.- restart kde

After logging in the problem has dissapeared for me. I can add firefox to the favourites and the panel.

I don't know if this workaround has any side effects, so maybe somebody with more knowledge than me in Kubuntu file system can tell.

The best workaround is to use lancelot. With it you can either drag non-kde apps on desktop or panel. This bug was not bugging me till alpha5.

I can confirm this bug on kubuntu intrepid, fully updated.

Also ~/.kde/share/config/.plasma-appletsrc contains no information whatsoever about firefox, only generic stuff as to where to place the plasmoids, what desktop background to use etc.

kde4libs (4:4.1.2-0ubuntu10) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Remove 12_deprecate_applnk.diff, it was the cause of all the problems with
    non-kde4 applications we had (broken icons, duplicated entries etc.)
    (LP: #254688, #268800)
  * Add kubuntu_11_fix_openwithdialog.diff to increase reliability of
    kopenwithdialog. Without the patch it creates KService objects using
    findByName, which is wrong whenever there is a non-application service
    type with the same name as the application (e.g. Kontact and kontactconfig)

 -- Harald Sitter < <email address hidden>> Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:14:56 +0200

Fixed it for me. I did have to remove the icons from favorites and add them again, but now the icons did come along!

Solved for me too. Thanks =)

2008/10/18 Egbert van der Wal <email address hidden>

> Fixed it for me. I did have to remove the icons from favorites and add
> them again, but now the icons did come along!
>
> --
> kubuntu kde4 intrepid kickoff menu, items added to favorites dont keep
> correct icon, generic gear shown
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254688
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

--
Gustavo A. Díaz
GDNet Projects
www.gdnet.com.ar

It works now the duplicate entries are gone :)