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.
Created attachment 1966893 [details] GNOME Software screenshot 1
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Created attachment 1966895 [details] GNOME Software log file
Still the same issue.
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Still the same problem on Fedora 40.
*** Bug 2266291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still the same problem on Fedora 41.
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!
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
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.