I believe this is a duplicate of bug #381021, which has been closed.

I am running Debian Squeeze (testing). The version of Alacarte installed is 0.12.4-1

Note: Exactly the same behaviour as described below, (including the brief appearance of the
user-configured icon before the default icon appears), also occurs on my other
computer, which uses gnome-panel 2.26.0 and alacarte 0.11.10-0ubunt, under Ubuntu Jaunty. Should I perhaps file this bug upstream with Gnome?

When I use Alacarte to assign an icon to a launcher, the assigned icon does not apply to the Window List buttons on the panel. To reproduce this behaviour:

1) Open the Alacarte Main Menu editor --  (Main Menu > System > Preferences > Main Menu)
2) Using Alacarte, navigate to Applications > System Tools > File Browser
3) Right-click on File Browser and select 'Properties'
4) In the 'Properties' dialog click on the icon
5) In the 'Browse icons' dialog go to "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/" and select the icon file named "nautilus.svg". Click 'OK"'
6) Click 'Close' in the 'Launcher Properties' dialog, then click 'Close' in the 'Main Menu' dialog.
7) Open the Nautilus file browser --  (Main Menu > System Tools > File Browser)

The icon that shows in the resulting Window List button on the panel is the default icon, (a grey-scale rendering of a two-door file cabinet), instead of the conch shell icon selected for the menu. BUT, it you're quick enough in looking at the panel while launching the File Browser, (and I suppose this depends partly on your computer's speed),  you will see the orange conch shell BRIEFLY appear in the Window List button, before it is replaced by the grey-scale file cabinet icon.

This is a specific example of the way my system behaves universally and consistently. I believe that the icons in the Window List should match those selected in the Main Menu. The brief appearance of my chosen icon before it's replaced by the default icon suggests to me that this is a bug.

If what I have observed is deemed to be the desired behaviour and not a bug, can you please tell me what files to edit, and where they are located, so I can make the Window List icons match the icons I choose for the Main Menu?

Thanks

Paul Taylor

Le lundi 18 janvier 2010 à 06:50 -0800, Paul Taylor a écrit :

The icons that appears in the window list are set by applications
themselves, in a per-window fashion.

The icon that appears shortly is set by the startup notification
mechanism, and therefore matches the one in the desktop file.

The appropriate way to fix this would be to make eggsmclient set the
default window icon based on the one in the desktop file, but it is very
hard to achieve since session management is done per-application, while
icons must be set at the window level.

In all cases, you should discuss this with upstream. This is not the
kind of change we will introduce in Debian.

Cheers,