1902929 - thunderbird.desktop File Doesn't Work - no icon in the dock

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[km]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I run thunderbird

Actual results:

The application opens but the doc shows a generic icon which can't be pinned

Expected results:

Dock should show a Thunderbird Beta icon.

Additional Info. This is running on Ubuntu 24.04. I am not using the snap version nor is any snap version installed. I have followed the instructions in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-linux for creating and editing the thunderbird.desktop file. I would also want to indicate a bug in that document. It wgets the standard thunderbird.desktop file into ~/.local/bin/thunderbird, but then uses sed scripts to edit it in .local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop. I put the edited desktop file in both places just to be sure. Still no icon in the dock.

Comment 1

[Vlad Lucaci, Thunderbird QA (:vlucaci)]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2024-07-16 14-31-33.png

Hello,

I have managed to reproduce this issue using Ubuntu 24 with 128.0esr(20240710185639) , 115.13.0(20240715172621) and 130(20240709104114).

It is worth mentioning that I reproduce this issue with all the builds downloaded from https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/candidates/.

However if I launch the 128esr that came pre-installed with the Ubuntu 24, the icon is displayed without any issues as it can be observed in the attached image.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

km,

Do you see this in 128.1.0 or newer? It it is gone, then likely fixed by bug 1904390