Bug#381021: gnome-panel: Cannot select custom application launcher icon

[CAiRO]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.14.2-1
Severity: normal

gnome-panel displays icons from the gnome icon theme instead of using the icon i have manually select.
Eg. for XChat I select the icon "/usr/share/pixmaps/xchat.png" through the application launcher properties dialogue, but in gnome-panel it actually shows "/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/xchat.png". I don't want that. There must be some way to override the default application icon from the icon theme with a custom icon.

In addition, the override is inconsistent. The taskbar doesn't use the icon theme icons but the default application icons.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16tooar3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                  2.14.2-2    The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center         1:2.14.2-2  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data           2.14.2-2    Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                  2.14.0-4    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data             2.14.2-1    common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  libart-2.0-2                 2.3.17-1    Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.12.1-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                 2.14.0-1    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0               2.14.0-3    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                    1.2.0-3     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libecal1.2-6                 1.6.2-3     Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-7          1.6.2-3     Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-6        1.6.2-3     GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.14.0-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                  1:2.5.1-2   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.10.3-3    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2           2.14.2-2    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2               2.14.0-4    an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.14.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0               2.14.2-1    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.8.18-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                    1:2.14.0-2  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0           2.14.2-1    library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.12.3-1+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                    2.14.2-1    Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-7   X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                      1:1.0.0-3   X11 authorisation library

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