Missing application icon in Xfce menus after pip3... install

[dajare]

After installing ReText 7.0 using pip3... in Ubuntu 16.04LTS+Xfce desktop, I was getting the ReText icon in the "panel", but not in the menus (Xfce's own application menu, and ClassicMenu Indicator).

This was mentioned while piggy-backing on a previous issue, but it seems worth an entry of its own.

I can confirm:

• there is a ~/.local/share/applications/me.mitya57.ReText.desktop file created;
• giving the absolute path for the Exec= line did not make any difference;
• I tried omitting the %F argument, enclosing in quotes, giving full path for the Icon= line ... none of these made any difference.

There might be something about an icon cache lurking here, but I've solved it with this workaround for the moment, having seen these items:

• Some icons are broken in the application menu
• PyQt not showing QSystemTrayIcon on XFCE / Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus
• and "Desktop" documetation on "Extra actions" + "Application icons"

The workaround was to save a copy of ReText's svg icon as ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/retext.svg, and that has satisfied both the Xfce menu, and ClassicMenu Indicator.

[mitya57]

The workaround was to save a copy of ReText's svg icon as ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/retext.svg, and that has satisfied both the Xfce menu, and ClassicMenu Indicator.

Thanks for the hint, I will make setup.py install such a copy.