Starting with application=... doesn't seem to be working

[Sebastien Bacher]

The issue happens on trusty. If you run "unity-control-center credentials application=shotwell", the online account dialog without any visible app specific selection.

Should it open on the "add" page with the filter set on the application specified?

Note that it could be an issue in u-c-c and how it calls the panel as well

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

I added a couple of debugging lines in u-c-c-signon, and here's the result:

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unity-control-center -v credentials -- application=shotwell
(unity-control-center:27615): credentials-cc-panel-DEBUG: Loaded
(unity-control-center:27615): Gtk-DEBUG: Connecting to session manager
** (unity-control-center:27615): DEBUG: Enabling debugging
** (unity-control-center:27615): DEBUG: Extra argument: application=shotwell
(unity-control-center:27615): credentials-cc-panel-DEBUG: cc-credentials-preferences.vala:107: no params
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-accounts-model.vala:259: Error loading icon 'vimeo': Icon 'vimeo' not present in theme
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-providers-model.vala:109: No desktop app info found for application name: com.ubuntu.developer.webapps.webapp-facebook_webapp-facebook
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-providers-model.vala:109: No desktop app info found for application name: uoa-integration-tests
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-providers-model.vala:109: No desktop app info found for application name: com.ubuntu.developer.knitzsche.oa-2_oa-2
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-providers-model.vala:109: No desktop app info found for application name: it.mardy.account-tester_account-tester
credentials-cc-panel-Message: cc-credentials-providers-model.vala:109: No desktop app info found for application name: com.ubuntu.reminders_reminders
(unity-control-center:27615): credentials-cc-panel-DEBUG: cc-credentials-account-details-page.vala:239: No configuration widget for provider windows-live
(unity-control-center:27615): credentials-cc-panel-DEBUG: Startup argument given: application=shotwell
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It looks like our plugin is "constructed" and *then* the "argv" property is set. Our code assumes that this is a construct property.
I'm not sure whether this assumption is correct, but since this used to work, it's very likely that something changed in u-c-c.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.