Bug#565747: Icons in gnome-panel window list buttons don't match those configured in Main Menu

[Josselin Mouette]

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

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,
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