Can't assign Launcher-icons

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:25:32 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke  
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 09:47 +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having trouble assigning icons to applications in the "Launcher
>> Properties" under Gnome:
>>
>> When opening the Properties window ("Launcher Properties") and
>> clicking on "Icon" near the bottom of the window I can't assign
>> e.g. .png, .gif, .xpm or whatever graphic-file as an icon: All entries
>> (filenames) are grayed out so I can't click on them.
>>
>> This happens for any graphic-files not contained in the standard
>> icon-directory, i.e. /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/pixmaps.
>>
>> Does anybody know what to do in order to assign icons (i.e. .png,
>> .gif,...) to programs started via a launcher?
>
> Works fine for me in GNOME 2.10.  I have not tried assigning a custom
> icon outside of the standard pixmaps directory under GNOME 2.12, but it
> should work.  I would say check permissions on the launcher as well as
> the icon you're trying to use.

Actually, it's usability issue that was started in gnome-panel 2.10.2.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310288

It lacks the refresh after you select the directory that made many users  
(even me) get confuse.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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