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icedtea-web package

java applet windows uses a wrong, ugly icon in the taskbar

Bug #863228 reported by Sandra Karuving on 2011-09-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Iced Tea	Fix Released	Medium	icedtea-bugzilla #918
	icedtea-web (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

if the browser-java-applets starts a new window it will hava the java-netx icon, wich is a 16x16only, black and whits "NX"-Text symbol.
you can find it in the file '''/usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar''' > net > sourceforge > jnlp >resources > netx-icon.png
This is a very bad behavios because
1. its ugly
2. a user will not bring "nx" in some relationship with a javaapplet
3. its only 16x16
4. it should use the icon from /usr/share/applications/icedtea-netx-javaws.desktop

the solution is just simple:
delete the file netx-icon.png from '''/usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar''' > net > sourceforge > jnlp >resources. then it will use the icon wich is given in the /usr/share/applications/icedtea-netx-javaws.desktop file

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: icedtea-netx 1.1.3-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 30 13:39:56 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
SourcePackage: icedtea-web
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Sandra Karuving (lumks) wrote on 2011-09-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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In Iced Tea Bugzilla #918, Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2012-04-11:

forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863228, the suggestion is not to ship the low resolution icon, so that the default gnome file is used.

Changed in icedtea-web (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-04-11

Changed in icedtea:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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In Iced Tea Bugzilla #918, Omajid (omajid) wrote on 2012-04-14:

Thanks for reporting the bug.

Yes, having netx icons and names may be confusing for the user.

(In reply to comment #0)
> delete the file netx-icon.png from '''/usr/share/icedtea-web/netx.jar''' > net
> > sourceforge > jnlp >resources. then it will use the icon wich is given in the
> /usr/share/applications/icedtea-netx-javaws.desktop file

The plugin is not associated with that desktop file. Making this change will cause icedtea-web to fall back to the default icon used by the jre for java applications (which on some distributions, should be /usr/share/icons/default/[somesize]/java.png). Arguably, that's even better.

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In Iced Tea Bugzilla #918, Omajid (omajid) wrote on 2012-04-14:

Actually, /usr/share/icons/default/[somesize]/java.png isn't right. The default icon image is either swing's (JavaCup{16,32}.png in openjdk's resources.jar) or awt's (XAWTIcon*_java_icon*png.class in openjdk's rt.jar)