Comment # 6
on bug 977040
from Wolfgang Bauer
(In reply to 6tr6tr R from comment #4)
> > What apps exactly are having this "problem"?
>
> While I'm sure there are more, MySQL WorkBench (installed from the openSUSE
> repos) and IntelliJ both show that generic icon in the taskbar.
Hm, MySQL-Workbench does show up fine here too.
And I tried the package included in Leap 42.1 and the one from server:database,
in case there's a difference.
> > Where did you install IntelliJ from?
> I installed https://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIU-2016.1.1.tar.gz I
> needed the Ultimate version (for work).
Ok, I will give that a try too, although TBH I don't really expect a different
result as with the community edition...
> > Maybe try to delete the icon cache (~/.cache/icon-cache.kcache) and run
> > "kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental" as user, or try with a fresh user account.
>
> This did not work (do I need to restart?) and it throws the error:
>
> kf5.kservice.sycoca: Parse error in
> "~/.config/menus/applications-merged/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu", line 1 ,
> col 1 : "unexpected end of file"
>
> The file is 0 bytes.
Delete the file and try again. It's empty anyway.
Though I think this should not really cause a problem.
Did you edit any application menu entries in the past?
Maybe this could cause a confusion.
IOW, do you have further files in ~/.config/menus/ and/or
~/.local/share/applications/?
Maybe try to move them out of the way as a test (and run kbuildsycoca5
afterwards), or as already suggested, try whether you can reproduce the "issue"
in a completely fresh user account.
(In reply to 6tr6tr R from comment #5)
> More info:
>
> In ~/.local/share/applications/IntelliJ.desktop I see the icon is set:
>
> Icon=/home/myname/IntelliJ/bin/idea.png That icon does exist in that
> path.
The intellij-idea-community-edition package I installed does something similar,
it installs a .desktop file to /usr/share/applications/ which points to an icon
in /usr/lib64/IntelliJ (or similar).
So this should be ok in general.