gnome-shell can't load dropbox icon

[bf]

This is a weird edge case where gnome-shell has some extension that tries to show dropbox / spotify icons in the gnome-shell bar. And of course gnome-shell can't read the icon for dropbox because it is stored in ~/.dropbox-dist.

How do you handle such cases? Would you extend gnome-shell config, or is there a way to change dropbox config which affects gnome-shell config (hopefully this is not allowed by design of apparmor)?

Anyways, the error can be fixed by adding this to gnome-shell config:

  # dropbox icon
  owner @{HOME}/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.*/images/{,**} r,

[roddhjav]

The best solution is to ask Dropbox to learn how to write software for Linux... More seriously, gnome-shell can already read icon from a lot of common places. E.g:

  /opt/**/share/icons/{,**} r,
  /snap/*/@{uid}/**.png r,
  /usr/share/**.{png,jpg,svg} r,
  /usr/share/**/icons/{,**} r,

Adding a new rule only for Dropbox location is totally possible, but not very practical at scale. Furthermore, adding unrestricted access to hidden files to the gnome-shell profile is what we try to avoid (this profile is already quite large).