Thunderbird icon in Unity launcher

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 08/30/2011 09:20 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I am running a fully updated Natty on my laptop. I downloaded and
> extracted a thunderbird tar.bz file to the Apps directory in my home
> folder.
> 
> I followed the directions in the third answer at [1] to put it on the
> Launcher and change the icon to a default Thunderbird icon.
> 
> [1]
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand
> 
> 
> It starts Thunderbird but the Thunderbird icon does not show on the
> Launcher.  Its icon always ends up looking like the icon for the
> Workplace Switcher. Changing the icon in preferences does not work either.
> 
> The proper icon shows in preferences and in the file manager but not on
> the Launcher.  When Thunderbird is running the icon in the upper left
> corner also looks like the Workplace Switcher icon.
> 
> Does anyone know how to make the Thunderbird icon "stick" on the Launcher?

While this is not what you wanted I know a better way to get the latest
thunderbird if that is what you want, it makes package management
cleaner (unless you put Thunderbird in /opt/thunderbird):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Or you can just pull down their debs for Natty.