No qtox icon in Cinnamon menu

[ivanbistrovic]

I use Debian 8 with Cinnamon desktop. I can't access qtox from menus because there is no icon and it can't be found by searching, only by invoking qtox through terminal. Tested with qtox and qtox-qt5.4.2, same thing happens. Some other clients work fine. What did I do wrong? :D

[agilob]

do you mean tray icon or after installing application?

[ivanbistrovic]

After installing an application. qtox works fine, I just can't access it through desktop environment because there are no menu entries.

[ghost]

If you copied the binaries in your path (or is there an unofficial .deb?), there's no package creating the necessary entries for the menu. To add a custom entry graphically, either open the menu configuration and then go to "menu editor", or create a new launcher anywhere (can be deleted afterwards) and select "also add a menu entry" after clicking ok.

[ivanbistrovic]

I installed it with package manager using Tox repository. Yes, manual adding of menu entry was simple but I was just asking maybe it can be fixed at the source. Thanks.

[zetok]

It's up to @Zer0-One to fix it, given that I no longer have access to jenkins.

[Zer0-One]

I'll look into it and report back here with any updates.

[antis81]

@Zer0-One Guess the .desktop file is missing -> also no panel-menu entry in Lubuntu 14.04. This would also allow for integration with "3rd-party" panel replacements like glx-dock, docky, etc. right?

[NicoHood]

I have the same problem with elementary OS here. (Based on Ubuntu and Gnome3).

I tried to create the entry myself, but the icon (picture) is still missing. I also tried to reinstall (via apt-get) but that didnt help.

Solution for now: /usr/share/application/qtox.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=qTox
Comment=A New Kind of Instant Messaging
GenericName=Internet Messenger
Keywords=Chat;qTox;Tox;secure;Messanger
Exec=/usr/bin/qtox
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=qtox
Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;

X-MessagingMenu-UsesChatSection=true

[zetok]

https://github.com/tux3/qTox/blob/deeb9b2308290e0404198a38a5d4c456ac39b328/INSTALL.md#community-builds ← could you check if it works for you?

[zetok]

No response for over a month, assuming it was fixed, thus closing.

[NicoHood]

I think I missed that. The issue is fixed now (on new installations, not my current install), thanks.