Error when launcher target not found needs to be user-readable
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 6.06
1. Install a program that does not get added to the Applications menu (I used gnome-think).
2. Add a menu item for the application yourself, using the Applications Menu Editor.
3. Some time later, uninstall the program.
4. Some time after that, select the menu item (whether by mistake, or because you've forgotten you uninstalled the program, or because someone else uninstalled it).
What you see: "Could not launch menu item - Details: Failed to execute child process 'gnome-think' (No such file or directory)".
What you should see: Something that doesn't mention killing children. For example, "“gnome-think” could not be opened because the file “gnome-think” could not be found".
The same problem occurs with launchers in Nautilus.
There's nothing offensive in "killing children" within the semantic context of a computer's operating system, where children are processes, and killing means removing them from the process table. This isn't a bug, but a user error, arising from semantic confusion.