Changing displayed Icon in Launcher

[jerome1232]

Okay so I created a custom launcher for 2 wine programs on my desktop and dragged them to my launcher to add them. They were both using the default cup of wine icon.

The first one kept this icon, the second one changed to the default custom launcher icon for gnome. I have since changed them to the games real icons but they aren't changing in the launcher even after removing and re-adding it to the launcher.

So 2 things are happening here, it seems the launcher is unable to use the same icon multiple times, and the launcher is "remembering" the icon's somewhere separatly from what the custom launcher is saying the icon should be.

Screen shot should illustrate as well.

[wojox]

Did you create a ~/.local/share/applications/wine.desktop file and if so could you post it?

[jerome1232]

No I did not, these files do exist at that location however.


jeremy@Farewell:~$ ls ~/.local/share/applications/
mimeinfo.cache wine-extension-jpe.desktop
wine-extension-chm.desktop wine-extension-jpeg.desktop
wine-extension-gif.desktop wine-extension-jpg.desktop
wine-extension-hlp.desktop wine-extension-png.desktop
wine-extension-htm.desktop wine-extension-rtf.desktop
wine-extension-html.desktop wine-extension-txt.desktop
wine-extension-ini.desktop wine-extension-wri.desktop
wine-extension-jfif.desktop wine-extension-xml.desktop


Should I create that file? Would it setup a custom icon for all wine programs? I was more hoping to create 2 separate icons for the 2 separate individual launchers.

[wojox]

See what this does:


cp /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop ~/.local/share/applications


gedit ~/.local/share/applications/wine.desktop

Have a look here for custom Icons (http://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand)

[jerome1232]

Copied it, this is it's contents.


jeremy@Farewell:~$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/wine.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Wine Windows Program Loader
Name[cs]=Zavaděč programů pro Wine
Name[de]=Wine Windows-Programmstarter
Name[es]=Wine Cargador de programas de Windows
Name[lt]=Wine Windows programų paleidyklė
Name[nl]=Wine Windows programmalader
Name[sv]=Wine Windows Programstartare
Name[ro]=Wine - Încărcătorul de programe Windows
Name[ru]=Wine - загрузчик Windows программ
Name[uk]=Wine - завантажувач Windows програм
Name[fr]=Wine - Chargeur de programmes Windows
Name[ca]=Wine - Carregador d'aplicacions del Windows
Name[pt]=Carregador de aplicativos Windows Wine
Name[pt_br]=Carregador de aplicativos Windows Wine
Name[it]=Wine Carica Programmi Windows
Name[da]=Wine, Programstarter til Windows-programmer
Name[nb]=Wine - for kjøring av Windows-programmer
Name[nn]=Wine - for køyring av Windows-program
Name[sr]=Wine - дизач Windows програма
Name[sr@latin]=Wine - dizač Windows programa
Name[hr]=Wine - dizač Windows programa
Exec=cautious-launcher %f wine start /unix
MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msi;application/x-win-lnk;application/x-ms-shortcut;
Icon=wine
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true


In case it's relevant these the .desktop files that I dragged onto the launcher.

jeremy@Farewell:~$ cat Desktop/World\ of\ Warcraft.desktop
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=gnome-panel-launcher
Name[en_US]=World of Warcraft
Exec=wine '/media/F2E05E94E05E5EC3/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe'
Comment[en_US]=Launch World of Warcraft under Wine
Name=World of Warcraft
Comment=Launch World of Warcraft under Wine
Icon=/home/jeremy/Downloads/WoW_Icon.png



jeremy@Farewell:~$ cat Desktop/StarCraft\ II\:Wings\ of\ Liberty.desktop
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=wine
Name[en_US]=StarCraft II:Wings of Liberty
Exec=wine '/media/F2E05E94E05E5EC3/Program Files (x86)/StarCraft II/StarCraft II.exe'
Comment[en_US]=SC2
Name=StarCraft II:Wings of Liberty
Comment=SC2
Icon=/home/jeremy/Downloads/starcraft_2_-_lazy_launcher_gui_1.2-345873-1268118200.jpeg

[wojox]

The .desktop files you dragged in have two icon references try removing the top ones

Icon[en_US]=gnome-panel-launcher
Icon[en_US]=wine

and log out and back in.

[jerome1232]

Hahha, just noticed there are two icon specifications in there, will attempt to edit that.


And it worked, just a side note the multiple icon tags were created, I hadn't attempted to manually edit the .desktop files until now, seeing as they were automatically created I assumed they were correct and unity was messing up.

Thanks for the help wojox.

[wojox]

Your welcome. :P