Duplicate Online Accounts launchers

[Jeremy Bícha]

gnome-control-center-signon ships both gnome-credentials-panel.desktop and credentials-preferences.desktop in /usr/share/applications. This results in two launchers with the same icon and name ("Online Accounts") showing up in the Unity Dash, GNOME Shell's Activities Overview and elsewhere. One launches a standalone Ubuntu Online Accounts app ; the other launches the integrated System Settings panel.

Perhaps the standalone launcher should be OnlyShowIn=GNOME; and the integrated one be NotShowIn=GNOME; as the Ubuntu GNOME (UG) developers would prefer to have System Settings to generally follow the GNOME design when a user runs GNOME Shell (in other words, UG want the standalone version but not the integrated one). If you do this, perhaps the launcher should be renamed 'Ubuntu Online Accounts' so that it's distinguishable from the other 'Online Accounts' launcher (with a different icon) shipped as part of GNOME (gnome-online-accounts). UG currently needs to ship both UOA and GOA.

Alternatively, the .desktop's could be shipped in two different binary packages. To reduce confusion you may want to have those two packages conflict with each other.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 2 22:22:42 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center-signon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1163658

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue has been fixed in trunk some days ago:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~online-accounts/gnome-control-center-signon/trunk/revision/146

That will work for Unity but you might want the same sort of tweaking for GNOME there...

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thanks seb.

Ken, can you fix this for all desktops instead of just Unity (since Empathy can be used on any desktop)? Also OnlyShowIn needs a trailing semicolon. Thanks!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Fixed in Ubuntu 17.10 because gnome-control-center-signon isn't offered any more.