[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thank you for your bug report, where do you suggest it would take the icon to use information from in those cases? ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-28 Thread TomasHnyk
Look up for a .desktop file corresponding to the autolaunched command? If I start empathy on startup, the program would look for empathy.desktop ( on my system /usr/share/applications/empathy.desktop ), which hopefully specifies an icon - and indded it does [Desktop Entry] blabla Exec=empathy

[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Interesting suggestion but that would lead to random behaviour (sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't), consistency is better than magic that happens to work only sometimes (random behaviour leads to confused users). What we recommend to do is to dnd softwares from the unity dash to the session

[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-28 Thread TomasHnyk
Interesting suggestion but that would lead to random behaviour (sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't), consistency is better than magic that happens to work only sometimes (random behaviour leads to confused users). Please note that I (and probably everyone who added startup applications in

[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
1) If you add an app that has an icon in unity and so on, if it does not appear, it should be filed as a bug. the issue is that the .desktop name should match the command name is something which is in practice often false and not a documented standard but an hack, we aim at better quality and

[Bug 896631] Re: Startup applications (aka gnome-session-properties ) should show icons if possible

2011-11-26 Thread TomasHnyk
** Attachment added: Most applications without icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896631/+attachment/2609374/+files/59.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu.