[SLOVED] Re: Thunderbird icon in Unity launcher

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/30/2011 01:16 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 10:37 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> On 08/30/2011 12:12 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2011 10:03 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> ...
>>>>
>>>> Just curious, but does Seamonkey show up as an app in Unity?  If I do a
>>>> search from the Dash for thunderbird all I get is the .tar file I
>>>> downloaded.  If I scroll through the list of apps it doesn't show there
>>> ...
>>>
>>> No it's doesn't.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Same as mine, so that's not the problem.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,  Jim
>>
>
> Just rebooted to be sure that the SeaMonkey launcher was still there: it
> is. I then went to the 'Applications' launcher the one with the
> magnifying glass w/+ sign in the middle, and SeaMonkey (the one I
> created) is there under 'Most Frequently Used' (including icon)&  works
> when I click it. I note "the one I created" as I have 3 other versions
> of SeaMonkey on the system, including some from ppa's&  Ubuntu standard
> for testing. The one I created is for SeaMonkey 2.3.1 (home folder).
>
> I also notice that when I use the search, SeaMonkey (all versions) are
> now showing up in 'Installed'.
>
> Here is the ~./local/applications/SeaMonkey.desktop file:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
>>
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Version=1.0
>> Type=Application
>> Terminal=false
>> Icon[en_US]=/home/natty/seamonkey2.3/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png
                  ^^^^^^^
This line was the problem. On mine, for some reason, it was just =/ . 
After I fixed that and rebooted, just to be sure, the icon was shown on 
the Launcher.  Thanks for the example file, that solved it for me. Also 
Thunderbird now shows up in Applications when I search.

>> Name[en_US]=SeaMonkey
>> Exec=/home/natty/seamonkey2.3/seamonkey/seamonkey -mail -browser
>> Comment[en_US]=SeaMonkey 2.3
>> Name=SeaMonkey
>> Comment=SeaMonkey 2.3
>> Icon=/home/natty/seamonkey2.3/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png
>
> I'll do one for Thunderbird&  post that as well.
>
>
>

Regards,  Jim