application icons not loading

[sid176]

Application icons are not loading in the search.

Ueli version : 8.4.0
Electron : 5.0.9
Node : 12.0.0
V8 : 7.3.492.27-electron.0

error while refreshing application search :
{ "level": "error", "name": "PS_CMD_FAIL_ERROR", "service": "user-service", "timestamp": "2019-12-05T12:03:09.110Z" }

debug logs :
ueli_logs.txt

[krizajb]

Can confirm having the same issue after the update.

[amrbashir]

Same here ver 8.4.1

[amrbashir]

the problem is described here (see #202 )
tldr:poweshell doesn't support utf-8
but the given solution didn't work for me for two reasons, first, the ExcutionPolicy was Restricted on my machine, secondly the code provided was uncorrect, so here is what worked for me:
*Open powershell as administrator and execute following commands

• Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted to change the ExcutionPolicy and allow executing scripts. (do it on your own responsibility)[All about execution policy can be found here]
• cd $home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell
• New-Item -Path '.\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1' -ItemType File
• notepad .\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 , a notepad window will open, Paste this code into it and save it $OutputEncoding = [console]::InputEncoding = [console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding

for more info check this topic

[krizajb]

The icons are back with the proposed solution but unfortunately other problems arise not related to the ueli. For example the degrees (°) character is not displayed properly using the rainmeter program.

[amrbashir]

@krizajb I didn't think of that, check my answer again, i edited it

[krizajb]

@AmrBinBashir Unfortunately it didn't work.

[amrbashir]

@krizajb provide ueli logs and open powershell to see if it gives any errors upon launching it, if so, paste the error here too.

[alefnull]

came to report this same problem, having just started noticing it myself. the described steps worked as intended for me. 👍

[oliverschwendener]

I added a fix in the newest version. Can you guys check if it works now?

1. Clear caches first:
   

2. Then refresh indices:
   

[krizajb]

Still nothing, but my case might be an exception since even the above provided solution from @AmrBinBashir didn't work for me. Shall I try reinstalling?

[amrbashir]

I can confirm the bug is solved, I reverted the steps i mentioned above and made sure i got the bug before updating to the newest version, after the update everything works fine.

[krizajb]

Reinstall didn't help. Let me know what I can do.

[oliverschwendener]

@krizajb Delete uelis temp folder C:\Users\<your-username>\.ueli and restart the app. Maybe that helps?

[krizajb]

No, this is content of debug.log:

2020-01-04T17:37:29.248Z debug: 0/200 app icons already exist
2020-01-04T17:37:29.249Z debug: Started to generate 200 app icons to C:\Users\blazk\.ueli\application-icons
2020-01-04T17:37:31.533Z error: 
      Exception calling "ExtractAssociatedIcon" with "1" argument(s): "Illegal characters in path."
At line:1 char:86908
+ ... leExists) { $icon = [System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractAssociatedIcon("C:\ ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException
 
Exception calling "Save" with "2" argument(s): "Illegal characters in path."
At line:1 char:87081
+ ... leExists) { $bitmap = $icon.ToBitmap().save("C:\Users\blazk\.ueli\app ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException

[krizajb]

I can confirm the latest build (8.5.0) fixed the issue for me.