Thunderbird icon in Unity launcher

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/30/2011 10:43 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 10:22 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Yes, I like to stay current on the Mozilla apps and right now
>> Thunderbird is in ~/Apps/thunderbird.
>
> A little secret a lot of people don't know about is ~/bin even though
> it's not there by default you can create it and it will automagically
> work from cmd, by default it's referenced in ~/.profile
>
>> Thanks for the info.  I've always done it as outlined above because it
>> always worked and I didn't know about the ppa.  If I use the ppa where
>> will updates come from?  The ppa or mozilla?
>>
>> I wonder if using the above method might solve my icon problem.  Just
>> guessing but I noticed that the way I have it installed now, Unity does
>> not show it in the list of applications, maybe that's the problem.
>
> The PPA is managed by the Ubuntu Mozilla Team
> (https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam) so it's legit and it will always
> work on Ubuntu, well there might be a few minor issues but those would
> generally be the same issues you would experience right upstream.  Your
> addons should be ported across too since they manage the entire lot for
> that PPA.  Installing from the PPA _should_ solve the icon problem, my
> little netbook (which uses that PPA and 11.04) does have the proper
> icon.  My main computer is 10.04 though so I can't speak about Unity here :P
>

Thanks again.  Soon as I get a chance I'll start using that ppa.  My 
main machine (desktop) is also 10.04 and likely to stay that way for 
quite a while.  Trying to use Unity is much more frustrating than when I 
jumped straight to Ubuntu from OS/2 about a year and a half ago.

Regards, Jim