I am trying to manually add a desktop shortcut to my N900.

I have created the .desktop file and placed it in /usr/share/applications/hildon/, and copied the 48x48 PNG icon to /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/

I'm fairly sure the .desktop file is correct. The shortcut appears in the apps menu, and in the list when adding shortcuts to the desktop. In both cases the shortcut works, i.e. launches the app correctly.

But in all cases the icon remains the default blue square, not the icon referenced in the .desktop.

Is there anything special I can do to make it appear ? I haven't tried rebooting, looking for a better way :-)

TIA
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