Icons in /usr/local are not loaded
If an application is installed in /usr/local
, Gnome will find .desktop
files in /usr/local/share/applications
. However, for desktop files in this directory, the icon can only be loaded if Icon
is set to an absolute path. Gnome Shell will not look at /usr/local/share/icons
.
I found this issue on Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome Shell 3.36.8. I don't think this has been fixed in later releases yet, as I searched for issues and merge requests here and did not find anything.