panel menu entry doesn't show correct icon

I can't confirm this. Using the same version on Hardy, the icon appears in the menu for me. Strange...

This installation is based on Hardy Alpha 5 iso, with all available updates installed (about daily).

Btw. Alacarte shows the same wrong icon as well. I wonder how to debug this problem?

Is the file seahorse.xpm in /usr/share/pixmaps/ ?

Yes, it's there:

$ ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/seahorse.xpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5225 2008-02-26 15:24 /usr/share/pixmaps/seahorse.xpm

Eog also displays it correctly.

There are also some more seahorse icons in /usr/share/icons/:

$ find /usr/share/icons/ -iname "seahorse*"
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/seahorse-preferences.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/seahorse.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/seahorse.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/seahorse-applet.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/seahorse-preferences.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/seahorse-preferences.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/seahorse.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/seahorse-applet.svg

I can confirm the problem. No icon inside the application menu...

$ dpkg -l seahorse*
ii seahorse 2.21.92-0ubuntu1 A Gnome front end for GnuPG

Looks like it's fixed with latest Seahorse upgrade (2.22.0-0ubuntu1). Christoph, can you confirm that?

Sorry :-( but it seems not to be fixed: after reboot the "keys" icon was gone and the generic icon was used again.

The icon is still missing in the final 8.04 release.

I have the same problem using the final 8.04 release. I have changed line 99 in /usr/share/applications/seahorse.desktop to "Icon=seahorse.png" and now it works for me.

I think that the svg files shouldn't be in the 22x22 directory. Maybe that causes problems, which would explain why changing the Icon key in the desktop file to "seahorse.png" fixes the issue.

On the other hand, I tried deleting the svg icons and copying the files from /usr/share/pixmaps/seahorse/22x22/ to /use/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/, but this didn't help. So the problem might not be related to the svg files.

Not sure what to make of this; but Alacarte displays the correct Seahorse icon when starting it with English locale (like "LANG=en_GB.utf8 alacarte" or "LANG=en_NZ.utf8 alacarte"), and it displays the wrong (generic) icon when starting it with German locale (like "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 alacarte" or "LANG=de_AT.utf8 alacarte ").

The seahorse icon is also not being displayed in the gnome menu using intrepid alpha 4. (With german language support)

The problem seems to be caused by the gettext support for .desktop files (01_gettext-desktopfiles.patch in glib2.0). More detailed, in source package gnome-menus in desktop-entries.c (function desktop_entry_load()), the function g_key_file_get_locale_string() from glib2.0 is used to get the icon name from /usr/share/applications/seahorse.desktop . In German locale, the gettext patch then causes that function to translate the icon name "seahorse" to "Seahorse", which is then not found as icon...

A workaround is to remove or disable the X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain line in seahorse.desktop.
A better solution might be to modify gnome-menus to use g_key_file_get_string() to get the icon name as untranslated string. This has the drawback that desktop file lines like "Icon[de]=seahorse-german" (to get a locale-specific icon) would not work anymore (is this actually used somewhere?). Also, the Desktop Entry Spec states that the Icon value is a "localestring", so g_key_file_get_locale_string() is actually the correct function to use...
The "Right Way" might be to add a flag to g_key_file_get_locale_string() so it loads the icon name as described in its documentation but without translating it with gettext... Not sure if this is possible, though, with regard to compatibility.

Subscribing glib2 package as the problem is caused by a glib2 patch; also subscribing gnome-menus package as it looks to be a possible candidate for a bugfix.

the bug is not a seahorse one

confirming as a seahorse issue, theorically icon names can be translated so that's a bit tricky

confirming as a glib issue rather

no need to have an another open task, the glib one is enough

I can confirm this bug, too. Noticed it first on Hardy, now the same with Intrepid with all updates (04.09.08).

This bug is fixed with up to date intrepid:

LANG = "de_DE.utf-8"
seahorse 2.23.92-0ubuntu2
glib2.0 2.18.0-1
gnome-menus 2.23.92-0ubuntu1