Comment 1 for bug 1580673

Looks like this is a general issue with Unity and DBusActivatable, I see baobab (the disk usage analyzer) which is also set to use DBusActivatable exhibits the same behavior in my VM:

gnunn@gnunn-VirtualBox:/usr/share/applications$ cat org.gnome.baobab.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Disk Usage Analyzer
Comment=Check folder sizes and available disk space
Keywords=storage;space;cleanup;
TryExec=baobab
Exec=baobab
Icon=baobab
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=inode/directory;
Categories=GTK;GNOME;System;Filesystem;X-GNOME-Utilities;
NotShowIn=KDE;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-utils
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=baobab
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.18.1
DBusActivatable=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=baobab
gnunn@gnunn-VirtualBox:/usr/share/applications$ ps -ef | grep baobab
gnunn 14590 1097 0 22:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/baobab --gapplication-service
gnunn 14598 2126 0 22:40 pts/5 00:00:00 grep --color=auto baobab
gnunn@gnunn-VirtualBox:/usr/share/applications$ ls /proc/14590/cwd
bin boot cdrom core dev etc home initrd.img lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz
gnunn@gnunn-VirtualBox:/usr/share/applications$