Ubuntu Installation Not Installing Launcher Icon Pack

[iamaaron]

• VSCode Version: 1.8.1
• OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install VSCode on Ubuntu via .deb file from https://code.visualstudio.com/
2. Notice that the Launcher icon is missing.

Some notes:

• /usr/share/icons/ does not include an icon pack for VSCode.
• The solution to copy an image to /usr/share/icons/ does not apply the Launcher icon.
• The solution to create a code.desktop file and placing it in ~/.local/share/applications/ with a corresponding image does not work.

My solution was to place a .png icon in /usr/share/icons/ and update the Applications properties icon to point to that image.

I am not extremely familiar with how the application is being built or installed, but I thought I'd bring this to attention.

Thanks!

[jacob3141]

@iamaaron Can you be more specific? I tried, but cannot reproduce the bug here. The launcher icon just appears fine. Are you using a default Ubuntu with Unity?

[bgse]

@iamaaron Was this a first install and a fresh Ubuntu, and how did you install the .deb exactly?

I couldn't reproduce on 16.04 with vscode 1.8.1 when uninstalling and reinstalling the .deb using Ubuntu Software.

I've been updating vscode on this system since 1.7 at least though, so that might be a factor.

[iamaaron]

@CyberCatalyst I am using vanilla Ubuntu with Unity.

@bgse This a rather fresh OS install with minimal customization. I installed the .deb file through the Software Center once downloaded from the website.

Yeah, my install was a fresh install of 1.8.1.

I found other Issues where are users were experiencing the same problem, none of their solutions worked and it was denoted by the contributors that this would be resolved in the following version, but didn't appear that way for me.

#4077

#6432

Thanks!
Aaron

[bgse]

@iamaaron Can you check if the application launcher is there?

bgse@thundercat:~$ ls -la /usr/share/applications/code.desktop 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 671 Dez 21 23:24 /usr/share/applications/code.desktop

You should see modification date as above, which corresponds to install time.

[Tyriar]

Any additional information would be helpful, the .desktop file should be installed to /usr/share/applications as @bgse mentioned (done here).

I suspect the software center is to blame as I've had issues with it not installing correctly. Did you get a permissions prompt when installed?

Installing it manually via dpkg may fix the issue:

sudo dpkg -i <file>.deb

[Tyriar]

Closing as not enough info to repro.