Complains about bad url on libertine scope urls

[Albert Astals Cid]

** (process:4255): WARNING **: Unable to dispatch url 'appid://xenial/org.kde.kate/0.0':GDBus.Error:com.canonical.URLDispatcher.BadURL: URL 'appid://xenial/org.kde.kate/0.0' is not handleable by the URL Dispatcher

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Pretty sure this is a URL Dispatcher bug. It isn't using the new UAL API's so it can't detect Libertine apps well.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

unfortunate that this did not land in the update

[Tim Süberkrüb (tim-sueberkrueb)]

FWIW, this bug results in users not being able to launch certain apps on OTA-13. At least Ubuntu Hangups, Liri Browser and YourGUS are affected by this problem.
Can you give any information about when the fix will land?

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 15:23 +0000, Tim Süberkrüb wrote:
> FWIW, this bug results in users not being able to launch certain apps
> on OTA-13. At least Ubuntu Hangups, Liri Browser and YourGUS are
> affected by this problem.
> Can you give any information about when the fix will land?
To be clear, URL Dispatcher hasn't changed except for rebuilds since
November 2015. It's not anything related to OTA13 or any of the last
several OTAs. If those apps worked in OTA12 but not 13, it wasn't URL
Dispatcher's fault.
Not saying this should get fixed and land, but acting like it broke
apps is disingenuous.

[Tim Süberkrüb (tim-sueberkrueb)]

> To be clear, URL Dispatcher hasn't changed except for rebuilds since
> November 2015. It's not anything related to OTA13 or any of the last
> several OTAs. If those apps worked in OTA12 but not 13, it wasn't URL
> Dispatcher's fault.
> Not saying this should get fixed and land, but acting like it broke
> apps is disingenuous.
I apologize for the misinformation (if that's the case).
But you pointed me to this bug on IRC (https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2016/08/22/%23ubuntu-app-devel.html) :-)
I'm a bit confused now TBH.

[Tim Süberkrüb (tim-sueberkrueb)]

Apologize for this misunderstanding, apparently this is - even though it looked like it (at least to me) in the first place - not the cause for the problem I mentioned. Thanks for clarifying.

[Tim Süberkrüb (tim-sueberkrueb)]

For the record: Installing Silo 1886 fixed the problem. So was this the right bug after all?

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

@tim yes ts the right bug, the point was its not a regression in url-dispatcher which hasnt changed in a year, so not sure it could have ever worked

[Larry Price (larryprice)]

I've seen more and more apps start to lean towards the org.gnome.appname syntax in recent updates, which is probably what happened.

[Tim Süberkrüb (tim-sueberkrueb)]

It definitely worked before, but I understand now what you mean.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package url-dispatcher - 0.1+17.04.20161107-0ubuntu1

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url-dispatcher (0.1+17.04.20161107-0ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Florian Boucault ]
  * Crossbuilding Fixes

  [ Larry Price ]
  * App ID should allow package names with dots. (LP: #1591342) (LP: #1606498)

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Check versions of appid:// urls to reduce the number of invalid appids
    we send to UAL (LP: #1352656)
  * Scope testing for the scope:// URL and overlays that should be over
    the dash
  * Protect the dash from getting NULL urls (LP: #1476257)
  * Make sure URL Overlays are shutdown on exit
  * Remove the wildcard that is confusing the update script (LP: #1461496)
  * Not using a message that isn't set properly (LP: #1608009)
  * Fixing tests to adjust for UAL changes
  * Add a small GUI helper tool for testing
  * Show error dialog over apps that use Bad URLs (LP: #1370008)

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:33:15 +0000