I have a ten year old laptop running Ubuntu 24.04. I have installed the Kate application there and it comes with its own easily recognized icon. I use this a lot so I have it pinned to my dash. It was installed before I upgraded to 24.04.
Now I've purchased a new machine, also comes with Ubuntu 24.04. On it I also installed Kate. It installed as a snap. It has a generic "gear" icon that I don't like and can't change.
Why is this the case? Is this a result of it being installed as a snap? Why isn't there an easy way to change the icon, or at least a way to do it through a config file?
Update: After messing around for a couple hours, I am completely defeated. The only way to install a usable kate on my machine seems to be through the Show Apps interface. The App Center way is futile. That produces the gear icon. Trying to find a usable icon leads me down this rabbit hole:
$ which kate
/snap/bin/kate
$ ll /snap/bin/kate
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 26 13:09 /snap/bin/kate -> /usr/bin/snap*
I don't even know what the asterisk in this symbolic link means. It doesn't lead me to any icons. So I'm stuck with the gear. I can launch kate. It works. But why was this system released on the public before it was ready?
I know you guys don't like snark but is Ubuntu trying to repel its existing user base?
