Riot icon disappears after upgrade to 1.2.0

[hooger]

Description

After upgrading to 1.2.0 from 1.1.2 the icon of Riot disappears from the taskbar (so I cannot focus it in case of minimizing), and on the window list the icon is not the official icon, but a regular "some window" icon.

Steps to reproduce

• Shut down riot-web
• Upgrade to riot-web 1.2.0 from 1.1.2
• Start riot-web
• Icon on the window list is not good, and there is no icon on the tray or taskbar
• Have the setting "The close button puts the application down on the tray" enabled (this message is a google translated version of the original hungarian that I see)
• Hit the close button
• Application disappears (but still running, based on ps, and "restarting" it from menu calls it pretty quick)

Describe how what happens differs from what you expected:

• I want my icons back :D (sry for strong phrasing)

Red circle shows the wrong icon display, blue circle shows where the Riot icon was right before I upgraded.

Version information

• Platform: web (in-browser) or desktop?

For the desktop app:

• OS: Debian stable, up-to-date at the time of bug report creation
• Version: 1.2.0

[hooger]

Interesting! When the first message arrived, the Riot icons automagically appeared with the number in bubble and after I read the new message, and the notification was gone, the icon stayed. However after restarting the app the issue resurfaces. This is still a bug, that needs to be addressed I think, but at least I can live with that.

[jryans]

Thanks for the report! That is definitely strange and unexpected. We've had a lot of trouble with those icons in desktop builds... At the moment, I'm not sure what would cause that, but let's keep this issue open and see if it affects others as well.

[Z-Brox]

Same here. After upgrading to 1.2.0 and restarting my systems (Xubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9) there's no Riot.im symbol in the notification area.

[edwardando]

I confirm: the tray icon has gone for me too on Debian Stretch with Openbox

[jryans]

Hmm, very curious. I have asked #riot-web:matrix.org, and some Linux users do have the app icon still, so we'll need to look for some kind of root cause here.

As far as I know, nothing was changed in Riot with the icon art... We did change from Electron 4.1.5 to 4.2.2 for Riot 1.2.0, so it's possible that is related to the issue here.

[jryans]

I don't see any changes to app icons in Electron changelog between those versions (but of course it's still possible that something may have changed anyway).

Electron 5 does mention some fixes in this area, but it's unclear if they'll help with this issue.

[adrianiainlam]

Same here, Ubuntu 16.04

[mrdumpty]

Same here, Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (Mate version)
No Riot icon on system tray.

[adrianiainlam]

Suddenly started working for me again, after someone messaged me.

[Z-Brox]

Asked some friends to message me and as soon as one of them did there's the symbol back again. But after closing and reopening the client the bug's also back.