unity-2d broken in WebLive (no icon)

Thanks for the bug report Stéphane.

A couple of questions:
By "not showing any icon" do you mean there are no items in the launcher (sidebar on the left of the screen)? Or there are items but no icons on them?
By "application chooser part" do you mean the application that comes up when you click on the Ubuntu 'circle of friends' button on the top left corner of the screen? If so this means you are hitting bug #706754 that is fixed and soon to be uploaded to 11.04 (probably tomorrow).

I forgot: a screenshot would be ideal!

Weblive is publicly accessible to everyone, just click on the URL I gave, enter a username and password and see for yourself. All you need is a java plugin installed on your machine.
As it's running on a remote server, making a screenshot isn't really easy :)

bug #706754 seems to be one of the issues I see, though I'd still think some icons should show up.

Stéphane, thank you for the tip.

By "not showing any icon" do you mean there are no items in the launcher (sidebar on the left of the screen)? Or there are items but no icons on them?

ok, I managed to get a screenshot

Very informative Stéphane, thank you.

Screenshot-1.png is the bug we talked about earlier on.
Screenshot.png is missing 8 big icons and I have no definite explanation for that as of yet. One idea that comes to mind is the following: do you have Unity 3D installed? If not do you have the unity-asset-pool package installed? If unity-asset-pool is installed, what is the content of /usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/apps/128 ? If it contains svg files, then do you have libqt4-svg installed?

root@ubuntu-natty01:~# dpkg -l | grep unity
ii gnome-themes-ubuntu 0.6.1 Ubuntu community themes
ii libmeanwhile1 1.0.2-3build2 open implementation of the Lotus Sametime Community Client protocol
ii libunity3 3.2.14-0ubuntu1 binding to get places into the launcher - shared library
ii unity 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 Interface for Ubuntu Desktop Edition
ii unity-2d 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 Unity interface for non-accelerated graphics cards
ii unity-2d-launcher 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 Unity 2D Launcher
ii unity-2d-panel 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 Unity 2D Panel
ii unity-2d-places 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 Unity 2D Places
ii unity-2d-spread 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 Unity 2D Spread
ii unity-asset-pool 0.8.18-0ubuntu2 Unity Assets Pool
ii unity-common 3.4.0-0ubuntu2 Common files for the interface for Ubuntu Desktop Edition
ii unity-place-applications 0.2.30-0ubuntu2 Application place for unity
ii unity-place-files 0.5.36-0ubuntu2 File place for unity

root@ubuntu-natty01:~# ls -lh /usr/share/icons/unity-icon-theme/apps/128
total 120K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K 2010-12-13 05:29 email_and_chat.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14K 2010-12-13 05:29 filesandfolders.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12K 2010-12-13 05:29 games.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K 2010-12-13 05:29 music.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K 2010-12-13 05:29 photos.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2K 2010-12-13 05:29 softwarecentre.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K 2010-12-13 05:29 web.svg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.6K 2010-12-13 05:29 work.svg

root@ubuntu-natty01:~# dpkg -l | grep qt
ii libdbusmenu-qt2 0.7.0-0ubuntu1 a Qt library that implements the DBusMenu spec
ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii libqt4-declarative 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 Declarative module
ii libqt4-network 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 network module
ii libqt4-script 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 script module
ii libqt4-sql 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 SQL module
ii libqt4-sql-mysql 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 MySQL database driver
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqt4-xmlpatterns 4:4.7.1-0ubuntu9 Qt 4 XML patterns module
ii libqtbamf1 0.1+bzr37...

Did you restart the machine after installing libqt4-svg ?

I destroyed the user and created a new one, thought it should be good enough :)

I just gave it a try, and it seems to work well now.

The only glitch is that the launcher, by default, doesn’t have any favorite (pinned) applications. This is because the GConf key /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/favorites is empty. Stéphane, you may want to add some default favorites to populate the launcher a bit. FYI, these are the contents of the key as set by the package when first installed:

[ubiquity-gtkui.desktop,nautilus-home.desktop,firefox.desktop,libreoffice-writer.desktop,libreoffice-calc.desktop,libreoffice-impress.desktop,ubuntu-software-center.desktop,ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk.desktop]

Ok, I added these values as default gconf keys in my build script and also re-configured gnome-terminal to avoid having a software rendered transparent background. WebLive is now rebuilding for both 11.04 Ubuntu VMs. Should be available in less than 2 hours.