[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
** Changed in: libgnomeui Status: New = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 Title: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
** Changed in: libgnomeui Importance: Unknown = Low -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
I can confirm that there must be a bug in alacarte also or still in Ubuntu 9.10. But I think it is not a problem of renaming things, but the dialogue does not choose a folder or a file - the dialogue asks for a folder to create. Seems to be a wrong type of dialogue? 1. e.g the icon /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/kde.png exists and is our candidate 2. start alacarte - choose properties for an entry 3. click browse icons - then click button browse 4. copy the path /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/ (not the icon name - just the path) 5. Now nothing is displayed 6. type now something in the path e.g. whatHappensNow 7. press button Open == Messagebox The folder could not be created (here: happily no write permission in this folder) Entering the full path/filename + open works, but this is not very user-friendly. I hope that this helps. Regards, Thorsten -- End -- -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
I can confirm that there must be a bug in alacarte also or still in Ubuntu 9.10. But I think it is not a problem of renaming things, but the dialogue does not choose a folder or a file - the dialogue asks for a folder to create. Seems to be a wrong type of dialogue? 1. e.g the icon /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/kde.png exists and is our candidate 2. start alacarte - choose properties for an entry 3. click browse icons - then click button browse 4. copy the path /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/ (not the icon name - just the path) 5. Now nothing is displayed 6. type now something in the path e.g. whatHappensNow 7. press button Open == Messagebox The folder could not be created (here: happily no write permission in this folder) Entering the full path/filename + open works, but this is not very user-friendly. I hope that this helps. Regards, Thorsten -- End -- -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
The behavior goes well beyond counterintuitive and into the realms of the actively deceptive. What Emmet Caulfield omitted to mention in his excellent comment is that when you first click in folder properties to change an icon, a window opens entitled Browse icons which has icons in it - the current icon and all icons in the same folder. And you CAN select one of these if you wish. This establishes the expectation that the name of the game is to browse to and select icons. The user does not expect that clicking the Browse button in this browse icons window will invoke ... a folder selector. If you click a button that says Browse you expect to actually browse. The folder switcher itself furthers this deception by opening in a window labelled browse and looking and behaving exactly like a file browser except that all the folders seem to be empty. I can't see how the behavior could be more deceptive. It certainly fooled me which is how I ended up here. The behavior is not ideal. A true browser would be better. However the deception could be easily addressed without having to change anything except the appearance of the windows which is a fairly trivial fix. I suggest the following. 1. Change the title of the button in the first window to choose folder instead of BROWSE. 2. Retitle the deceptive window choose folder instead of browse. 3. Add the following words to the bottom of the window in the region to the left of the cancel button (which is conveniently vacant). CHOOSE A FOLDER TO BROWSE FOR ICONS -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
** Changed in: libgnomeui Status: Unknown = New -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
seems somewhat similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520837 ** Changed in: libgnomeui (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: New = Triaged ** Also affects: libgnomeui via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520837 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
I think the problem here is that the Browse file chooser (reached via clicking Browse in the Browse Icons dialog) violates the principle of least surprise and is badly counterintuitive. You are expected to choose a folder, not a file. No regular files are listed at any time, so you can't see whether there are files in the folders or not. When you want to choose a file, you have to navigate to the folder one level up (i.e. closer to the root) from the folder that contains the icon you want to use, select the folder containing the icon you want to use from the list, then click Open to dismiss the Browse dialog and cause the Browse Icons parent dialog to MAYBE populate its main pane with thumbnails from the selected folder (IF there are any image files in it), from which an icon can be chosen. This is not browsing, since it expects clairvoyance on the part of the user: both in divining what the hell is going on and in knowing, presumably by osmosis, that a particular folder actually contains icons without being allowed to see its contents. A workaround might be to relabel the button and associated dialog Fumble Blindfold rather than Browse. -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
** Changed in: libgnomeui (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: alacarte = libgnomeui -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for libgnomeui in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
Ok I can confirm that with alacarte 0.11.3-0ubuntu2 and Ubuntu 7.04. ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = alacarte Status: Incomplete = Triaged ** Description changed: - i had a straight forward realvnc executable and i tried to allocate it - an icon of a pic in my home folder, and it wouldn't accept it or pick - it, i have tried multiple file types but it wont recognise any kind of - file, only will display folders. + When you try to set up a custom icon for an application with alacarte, + it's not possible to use a picture that is not in the default folder, + it's possible to browse the different folders of the system through the + file picker but the pictures/files won't be displayed. -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
You need to select the folder the icon is in, then it will show in the preview area in the icon chooser and you can select it. ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Invalid -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
are you serious? -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
Actually what we are trying to say is that the icons don't show in the icon chooser when we select a folder where the icons are. ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
In that case I cannot reproduce, I can use icons from my ~/Desktop with no problems. Also, if you think this is a bad UI, etc you should file a bug against gnome-panel and/or libgnomeui. -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 116443] Re: Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu.
Well I finally understood what your first comment meant, the file chooser is here to select the folder then when we select open the files show up in the other window. IMO this kind of folder chooser is really bad, it's the first time I see that and it's really weird. This is a request that should be made to gnome-panel and libgnomeui ? -- Cannot set custom program icons in the application menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
