Nautilus does not appear in the Dash search results when searching for "nautilus" "file"or "home"

Bug #758042 reported by Jim Campbell
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity-2d
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-lens-applications
Fix Released
Medium
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Natty
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Natty
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Install unity-place-applications 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1 from natty-proposed. Then logout and login again in the session
Test case:
- Open the Dash by pressing the meta key or by clicking on the BFB,
- then search for Nautilus
-> nautilus should appear in the result if installed.

(you can also try searching for file or even home). None of these searches produce any application-related results.

If I press alt-f2, and then search for Nautilus, I get the desired result.

Although there is a link to Nautilus in the default launcher, this link can be removed (un-pinned), so users should have an easy way to search for and find their home directory.

Revision history for this message
Jim Campbell (jwcampbell) wrote :

jwc@helpsoup:~/$ dpkg -l unity

+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii unity 3.8.6-0ubuntu1 Interface designed for efficiency of space

summary: Nautilus does not appear in the Dash search results when searching for
- "Nautilus" or "File"
+ "nautilus" "file"or "home"
Alex Launi (alexlauni)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Triaged
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Tommy Brunn (tommybrunn) wrote :

As a temporary workaround for anyone who has unpinned their home folder from the launcher (like I had); open /usr/share/applications/ and then drag nautilus-home.desktop to the launcher.

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

Nautilus is not shown because it has NoDisplay=true in its .desktop file. Just like it is not shown in the Gnome menus. What you can do to open the file manager is to type the first few letters of any of your bookmarked folders. Like typing "do" to access ~/Documents.

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

Or hold on... I see that there is actually a /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop which doesn't have the NoDisplay key set. Not sure why that's not being indexed... Looking into it.

Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

With the attached branch you can now find

gnome-search-tool.desktop
nautilus-computer.desktop
nautilus-home.desktop
network-scheme.desktop
ubuntu-about.desktop
yelp.desktop

Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 3.8.14
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-place-applications:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 0.2.48
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 3.10
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
status: Invalid → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Fix Released
description: updated
Changed in unity-place-applications:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-place-applications - 0.2.46-0ubuntu4

---------------
unity-place-applications (0.2.46-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick some fixes:
    - Allow the Core category to be included under All Applications (and hence
      show up in Dash searches as well). This means that one can now find Help,
      Home Folder, Computer, and Network. The ommision of this xdg category was
      probably a relic of our netbook launcher past (LP: #758042)
    - Fix illegal XML in unity-place-applications.menu.in. xmllint is happy now.
      Patch courtesy Daniel Holbert (LP: #72152)
    - trim the alt + F2 command line (LP: #767750)
    - ensure we are matching files as files (no space in the command). This
      enables to launch gvim rrr:rrr.txt which is matched (LP: #776731)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 26 May 2011 15:25:53 +0200

Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Didier, you typoed "Patch courtesy Daniel Holbert (LP: #72152)" in the natty-proposed upload. Rejecting, can you please reupload with fixed bug ref? Thanks!

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted unity-place-applications into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I've followed the test case and now indeed nautilus appear in the search, marking this as verification-done, thanks all.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Changed in unity-2d:
milestone: 3.10 → 3.8.8
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-place-applications - 0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1

---------------
unity-place-applications (0.2.46-0ubuntu3.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Cherry-pick some fixes:
    - Allow the Core category to be included under All Applications (and hence
      show up in Dash searches as well). This means that one can now find Help,
      Home Folder, Computer, and Network. The ommision of this xdg category was
      probably a relic of our netbook launcher past (LP: #758042)
    - Fix illegal XML in unity-place-applications.menu.in. xmllint is happy now.
      Patch courtesy Daniel Holbert (LP: #772152)
    - trim the alt + F2 command line (LP: #767750)
    - ensure we are matching files as files (no space in the command). This
      enables to launch gvim rrr:rrr.txt which is matched (LP: #776731)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 26 May 2011 15:25:53 +0200

Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Jack O'Connor (gnujack) wrote :

Maybe I'm missing something, but I now have version 3.8.14, and tying "home" gives the required result, but not "nautilus".

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