FreeCAD Icon for Ubuntu

[chrisb]

I have - of course - FreeCAD in the launcher. I would like to have the FreeCAD logo on the icon, as I think I used to have in some former version.

[NormandC]

Hi Chris,

Could you post your FreeCAD info? This will tell which version of Ubuntu and FreeCAD you're using.

No problem here with the latest freecad-daily.

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.8856 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: c465ca261ce3289daf427cb30a5626c159232287
Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[NormandC]

Assuming you are using the freecad-daily package, the "/usr/share/menu/freecad-daily/menu" text file looks for the icon in /usr/share/freecad-daily/freecad.xpm. Can you check that the icon is indeed on your system?

[chrisb]

Thanks for looking. The icon is in the requested place and I can display it.

I want to point out, that this is not a recent error. Probably it is something that lies beyond FreeCAD, but other programs like inkscape or fontforge handle the icon as expected.
Perhaps it is worth mentioning that I don't have the stable version on this system. For a test I created the path /usr/share/freecad/ and copied the icon there, but it didn't help. It is not a really important matter, so don't put too much effort in it.

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.8856 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: c465ca261ce3289daf427cb30a5626c159232287
Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[triplus]

If you remove the application launcher from Left dock and after search for it in Dash again does the icon show correctly there?

[chrisb]

No, it shows only the default white paper with a folded corner.

[chrisb]

Same situation with a completely new user, just to exclude weird user settings.

[triplus]

I did a quick test and can confirm if only FreeCAD daily is installed application icon isn't correct.

[chrisb]

I installed a FreeCAD 0.14 (!) from the package manager. It shows the icon correctly, perhaps the only thing that is better in that ancient version .

[triplus]

If you will install both FreeCAD 0.16 from stable PPA and FreeCAD 0.17 from daily PPA you should get application icon you expect.