Failed to start GNOME software [$15]

[Hassan E. Khallaf]

Right click on any file, select Open With > Other Application > Find New Applications > Failed to start GNOME software: Failed to excute child process "gnome-software" (No such file or directory).

[Timo Reimerdes (timorei)]

I can confirm this.

[Ken Harkey (kenny727)]

I'm guessing it may be a gtk 3.12 thing? Since it's the first release where gnome software became sort of the standard way for gnome to install it's applications. Perhaps there is some config somewhere that needs to be changed to reflect the distro specific software center.

[Sascha Heuterer (theanachron)]

I can confirm this.
The question is: What should be opened?
I highly doubt we want the software-center, but more likely like a file opener to look for it manually.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Easiest solution is to just remove the button if we can learn what package
it's supplied by

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Sascha Heuterer <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can confirm this.
> The question is: What should be opened?
> I highly doubt we want the software-center, but more likely like a file
> opener to look for it manually.
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[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3733174-failed-to-start-gnome-software

[Santiago (santileortiz)]

id like to help with this but it seems we might have to patch gtk+3.0, how do you deploy OS patches? is there already a branch of gtk+ from which I should work?

[Gero.Bare (gero-bare)]

Here I add the patch to Gtk+3.0

The patch removes the button and fix an missing icon in the dialog.

[Gero.Bare (gero-bare)]

This is what looks like now.

[Gero.Bare (gero-bare)]

@santileortiz
That's handled by our package engineer ricotz.

So you get the source

$ apt-get source gtk+3.0

and make a patch with diff.

Most of the infrastructure is handled in launchpad, but other by people.

[Gero.Bare (gero-bare)]

This is the second version of the patch.
I deleted more code, not the icon and the "No applications found" label is gone.

So I hope this should be a working solution for gtk3.14