Recently, my non-snap version of Element (Desktop) on Ubuntu 26.04 started behaving badly by not displaying its icon properly in the Gnome "Dash" (see Gnome Terminology).
Some searching revealed Fixing Applications Icon Missing from the Launcher in Ubuntu and that led me to a fix by editing /usr/share/applications/element-desktop.desktop to switch the StartupWMClass to element rather than Element.
Unfortunately, some time later (likely after applying updates to the element-desktop package) the behaviour reverted to the broken icon.
I took a guess that copying that /usr/share/applications/element-desktop.desktop file to my ~/.local/share/applications/ folder and fixing it there might override the broken one being installed and maintained by the package and survive future upgrades to the package.
My first hunch was correct. It overrides and works. Time will tell if it persists. In the meantime, Element issue #33472 exists for the problem caused by a mismatched StartupWMClass.
On a related note: Element issue #34895 points to Electron issue #53215 for the broken status icon in the Gnome "Top Bar".
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