apps (in PPAs?) are not showing up in the autocompletion

[Schwarzburg]

Steps to reproduce:

1) add the qreator daily ppa
2) update; upgrade or install qreator
3) start qreator and switch to the SoftwareCenterApp tab
4) start typing qreator

-> qreator is not in the list

Other separately installed apps (tried with mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ubuntu/instructions/ ) do not show up as well.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Al 15/06/12 12:23, En/na Schwarzburg ha escrit:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1) add the qreator daily ppa
> 2) update; upgrade or install qreator
> 3) start qreator and switch to the SoftwareCenterApp tab
> 4) start typing qreator
>
> -> qreator is not in the list
>
> Other separately installed apps (tried with mendeley
> http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ubuntu/instructions/ )
> do not show up as well.
>
> ** Affects: qreator
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

I've just been chatting with mvo, and it seems we just need to set
"use_axi=True" and "use_agent=True" when we're reading the database.

That seems to work well, but I've noticed two things:

- It takes ages to read the DB (probably because of the number of extra
PPA subscriptions? there is only a handful of extras.u.c apps)
- The icons are not loaded for extras.u.c or PPA apps. These seem to
need downloading using the .icon_url property instead of .icon

 status: triaged
 importance: medium