The other day I installed the game "World of Goo" on my MBP and a weird thing happened. The game showed up in the Applications stack on the dock, but the icon was missing. Instead it had a grayed out "default" type icon with a circle with a cross over the it. However, if I viewed my applications in a Finder window the icon showed up just fine there.
I did a quick google search and found a blog post by somebody who had the same type of issue (though not for World of Goo) and he/she solved it by opening up Terminal and typing "kill Dock" This of course killed the dock process, and it automatically restarts and the icon is suddenly there.
I can't remember the date on that blog posting, and I'd have to find it again, but I'm just wondering if others have this happen, and if this is something that happens often for anybody who has gone through it. I thought maybe it was a Snow Leopard issue, and the game maybe not being fully tested and supported for SL, but I'm just guessing. I don't know for sure, since I don't know when the game came out, if the latest version officially supports SL, etc. The blogger I had found said that they had to do it a lot, after installing programs. I've only had my MBP for a couple months and this was the first time this has happened, but World of Goo was maybe my 3rd or 4th software installation.
I did a quick google search and found a blog post by somebody who had the same type of issue (though not for World of Goo) and he/she solved it by opening up Terminal and typing "kill Dock" This of course killed the dock process, and it automatically restarts and the icon is suddenly there.
I can't remember the date on that blog posting, and I'd have to find it again, but I'm just wondering if others have this happen, and if this is something that happens often for anybody who has gone through it. I thought maybe it was a Snow Leopard issue, and the game maybe not being fully tested and supported for SL, but I'm just guessing. I don't know for sure, since I don't know when the game came out, if the latest version officially supports SL, etc. The blogger I had found said that they had to do it a lot, after installing programs. I've only had my MBP for a couple months and this was the first time this has happened, but World of Goo was maybe my 3rd or 4th software installation.
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