Bug 2210038

Summary: Thunderbird (RPM) has missing desktop icon in AppStream metadata
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Rusek <drusek>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: -RETIRED- <erack>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: erack, gecko-bugs-nobody, kai-engert-fedora, klaas, mail, mail, rhughes, rstrode
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Description Daniel Rusek 2023-05-25 14:38:05 UTC
The RPM version of Thunderbird has missing desktop icon in AppStream metadata. See the attached screenshots from GNOME Software.

It seems to be caused by the Thunderbird AppStream metadata id not matching its desktop file name.

Ideally, the desktop file should be renamed to "net.thunderbird.Thunderbird.desktop".

The appdata file should also be renamed to "net.thunderbird.Thunderbird.appdata.xml" because it should also match the AppStream app id.

For example, see the Firefox package.

There is another possible solution of just adding "<launchable type="desktop-id">mozilla-thunderbird.desktop</launchable>" to the thunderbird.appdata.xml file and not changing anything else. But that is not a clean solution, only a workaround.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use latest, fully updated Fedora Workstation 38.
2. Open the "Software" app.
3. Try searching for "Thunderbird".

Actual Results:  
The RPM result has no desktop icon. Fedora Flatpak one has the correct icon.

Expected Results:  
Both the RPM result and the Flatpak one have correct icons.

See the attached verbose GNOME Software log file.

Comment 1 Daniel Rusek 2023-05-25 14:39:09 UTC
Created attachment 1966893 [details]
GNOME Software screenshot 1

Comment 2 Daniel Rusek 2023-05-25 14:39:39 UTC
Created attachment 1966894 [details]
GNOME Software screenshot 2

Comment 3 Daniel Rusek 2023-05-25 14:41:09 UTC
Created attachment 1966895 [details]
GNOME Software log file

Comment 4 Daniel Rusek 2023-06-30 00:28:26 UTC
Still the same issue.

Comment 5 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-22 11:11:13 UTC
Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we
are closing this bug.

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Comment 6 Daniel Rusek 2024-05-22 18:14:58 UTC
Still the same problem on Fedora 40.

Comment 7 Daniel Rusek 2024-10-03 13:38:28 UTC
*** Bug 2266291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Daniel Rusek 2024-10-03 13:40:11 UTC
Still the same problem on Fedora 41.

Comment 9 Daniel Rusek 2024-12-19 17:56:19 UTC
Should be fixed by the following PR:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/thunderbird/pull-request/25

Please make a comment in the PR or contact me (via email or Slack) if you have any question.

Thanks!

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2025-01-06 16:25:52 UTC
FEDORA-2025-e38f170cfc (thunderbird-128.5.2-2.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-e38f170cfc

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2025-01-06 16:31:55 UTC
FEDORA-2025-e38f170cfc (thunderbird-128.5.2-2.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.