I discovered that removing the file
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache  solved that problem.

Maybe the problem is more complex than what I thought so this mailing list
might not be the best place. Where do you think I can discuss such thing ?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Lionel Dricot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've packaged my first complete Gnome application but I experience a very
> strange behaviour with icons in the menu. As it was done more by try/error
> than by real understanding, I guess I missed something.
>
> My application is called "gtg" and I've put a gtg.desktop in
> /usr/share/applications with the following line in it :
>
> Icon=gtg
>
> I've also put a gtg.png in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16 22x22 24x24 and a
> .svg in scalable.
>
>
> So, does it work ?  Maybe.
>
> On one computer, it worked as soon as the application was installed
> On another computer, it required to killall gnome-panel because the icon
> never showed up.
> On the third computer, there's no icon at all.
>
> All 3 computers are Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm completely lost trying to find out
> what can be the cause of this problem. Also, I don't understand what the
> /usr/share/pixmaps folder is.
>
>
> Is there a good ressource about that ? It still seems like black magic to
> me and I hate that feeling.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lionel
>
> PS : packages are 
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~gtg/+archive/ppa<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Egtg/+archive/ppa>and
>  tar.gz for other distributions is here :
> https://edge.launchpad.net/gtg/+download
>
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