Unfortunately, now since I did something to "fix" the desktop entry, even if I change it back so the "Name" property isn't first, it won't display the problem anymore. I even tried copying one of them to a new file with a different name, with the "Name" property not first, and that works also.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576446 Title: desktop shortcut names just print the file name ("*.desktop") and a generic icon Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have VMs for 14.04, 15.10, and now 16.04. I've had no particular trouble creating desktop shortcuts in the first two. I typically create a new desktop entry by copying the "*.desktop" file in ~/Desktop to a new file and editing the contents, changing the Name, Icon, and Exec properties. This has worked perfectly fine in the first two. In 16.04, although "executing" the shortcut (double-clicking, for instance) works fine, executing the application I want, the display of it is somewhat defective in two ways. First, all of the shortcuts I create this way are using the same generic icon (looks like a document editor, with "Aa" in text with some little colored boxes). My "Icon" property is a fully-qualified path to the icon file. I've double- checked that the path I specify there exists. Second, the label underneath the icon isn't the "Name" value, it's just displaying the name of the ".desktop" file, including the ".desktop" extension. I then tried the "recommended" way of creating shortcuts for "provided" applications by searching for the app in the "appstore" (don't remember what that's called) and then dragging the icon I found onto the desktop. I thought I tried this yesterday, and it resulted in the same symptom, but when I tried it today it worked fine. So I then looked closer at the generated ".desktop" file and compared it to my "hand-coded" ".desktop" files. The generated one had quite a few more properties, but I didn't see anything obvious that indicated why mine was not working properly. However, I still looked at the differences and decided to try removing some differences to see if it would fix my hand-coded file. The first thing I noted was that in my hand-coded file, the "Name" property was not the first property setting in the "Desktop Entry" group, but in the generated one, it was. I read the "Desktop Entry Specification", and I didn't see any indication that the order of those properties was relevant, but just in case, I tried making that change. In fact, that appeared to be the problem. When I just moved the "Name" property to the first position in the group, the icon and name displayed correctly. I'd call this a bug. This ordering constraint was not required in 14.04 or 15.10, and again, the "Desktop Entry Specification" says nothing about any required ordering of these properties. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.361 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Apr 28 14:16:15 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-26 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1576446/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
