VirtualBox Unity menu icon should have the same function as on windows

[David Baumann]

Whenever I start a virtualbox, and close "Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager", I have to start it again using the main menu.
On Windows, I can start the manager later. It should work like for Chrome "Open new tab", "Open new incognito tab" etc.

ProblemType: Feature
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: virtualbox 5.0.4-dfsg-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Oct 18 17:30:01 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-13 (491 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-07-20 (89 days ago)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, this is true and annoying... can you please report it upstream?
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community

thanks!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Confirming as per Debian Maintainer's comment

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Actually you can run it from the shell to see the window reappear

[David Baumann (davidbaumann)]

Actually, there is only need to add these lines to the virtualbox.desktop file:

Actions=Manager;

[Desktop Action Manager]
Name=Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager
Name[de]=Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager öffnen
Exec=VirtualBox

Next step for me will be to try to create a pull request about that.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

@David,
here you can see the Debian vbox file
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/tree/debian/virtualbox-qt.files/virtualbox.desktop

and here the upstream one
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/tree/src/VBox/Installer/common/virtualbox.desktop.in

where do you want to add such changes?
I don't find references to such syntax on the documentation

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

(BTW vbox devs are not on github, you might want to send a mail to vbox-dev and tell them the patch is released under MIT)
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information

[David Baumann (davidbaumann)]

Actually it's

[Desktop Entry]
Name=VirtualBox
...
Categories=Emulator;Utility;
Actions=Manager;

[Desktop Action Manager]
Name=Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager
Name[de]=Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager öffnen
Exec=VirtualBox

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, I committed it on git, following upstream implementation of your patch
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=2f46d9df8407626f71590713c30de2b750b0473d

it will be part of the next upload (mostly for sure before zesty is released)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 5.1.16-dfsg-1

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virtualbox (5.1.16-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ David Baumann ]
  * Fix desktop file (LP: #1507324)

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * New upstream release, patch refresh.
  * Drop upstream patch for linux 4.10

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 15:09:23 +0100