[Gambas-bugtracker] Bug #3115: IDE Crash

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http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.3115&from=L21haW4-

Comment #14 by Bruce STEERS:

Carlo (apologies for calling Carlos)

I just experienced a similar issue on a wayland fedora system.

For some reason it seems the gambas install did not install the gambas icon to /usr/share/applications/gambas3.desktop
It only installed it to ~/.local/share/applications/

When running the IDE that icon was replaced by the version Benoit constructs to fix a wayland bug.
The IDE crashed and the icon was not removed.
It is not a valid desktop icon that displays...

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=gambas3
Exec=true
NoDisplay=true
Icon=/tmp/gambas.1000/5941/.app.png

So my icon was also gone.

Re-installing gambas then did not re-install the icon because i assumed one already existed.
So i deleted it but still make install did not install a new icon.

To fix this I copied the gambas launcher icon from the source to my /usr/share/applications folder

$ cd /gambas-source-folder
$ sudo cp app/desktop/gambas3.desktop /usr/share/applications/

That should fix your issue. as gambas cannot write to /usr/share only $HOME/.local/share

Benoit,, can this generated icon have and use a unique name other than gambas3.desktop?  this could possibly stop this problem.

Respects
BruceS



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