notes-app fails to launch on unity8 with mir - unable to authenticate it

[Gerry Boland]

notes-app fails to launch on unity8 with mir. Unity with Mir authenticates apps based on their desktop file. If a process tries to connect to Mir, and is not clear to unity8 it has a desktop file associated, that connection will be rejected and the app probably crashes.

This is happening with notes-app.

Note in the SurfaceFlinger case, the --desktop_file_hint=/path/to/desktop/file.desktop is added in explicitly by upstart-app-launch scripts. But this is not done for Mir.

Would suggest using this line in the desktop file, instead of the wrapper script:
Exec=qmlscene /usr/share/notes-app/Notes.qml %u (if they take a URL)

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I’m not really sure why there is a wrapper script to launch the app in the first place. Maybe for autopilot tests?

Anyway, how come unity8 fails to associate /usr/bin/notes-app to /usr/share/applications/notes-app.desktop ?

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

@ugo
please make the change per greyback's request

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:notes-app at revision 207, scheduled for release in notes-app, milestone ubuntu-13.04-month-5

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".