Bad icons display in menus

[gordon]

@Fraga, welcome.

@olek already linked you to a duplicate topic which discusses this issue in detail; too much detail to be honest. As such I'm going to give you a shortcut to the short workaround:

Menu icons not found on fresh new install 20.04

Well, @lah7's workaround works, but in addition you have to do that in all *.directory files located in /usr/share/mate/desktop-directories / For exemple, take the mate-office.directory file: [WhatsApp Image 2020-07-01 at 15.10.05] As you can see, pt, sl and nl are afected and other languages are not needed, so is secure to remove all lines that start with Icon[ sudo sed -i '/Icon\[/d' /usr/share/applications/*.desktop sudo sed -i '/Icon\[/d' /usr/share/mate/desktop-directories/*.directory …

Basically, the problem is: Somebody accidentally translated icon names a while ago; the buggy applications were included in Ubuntu (MATE) 20.04 LTS; the bug was fixed; it's tough to update LTS versions of packages, so nobody patched the LTS versions of the packages for Ubuntu 20.04.1 and thus the problem continues to haunt some of us.

Plagiarized from the post I quoted above, here's the commands to rectify the issue, at least for the time being:

sudo sed -i '/Icon\[/d' /usr/share/applications/*.desktop
sudo sed -i '/Icon\[/d' /usr/share/mate/desktop-directories/*.directory
sudo update-desktop-database

This deletes the unnecessary and detrimental translations on the icon names for numerous MATE applications and desktop directories. If it works, you can thank @azardo.