Dash - Searching for "gwibber" in Dash returns two results with the same icon

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

To Reproduce:

1. Install Ubuntu, and log in for the first time.
2. Go to the Dash Home, and type "gwibber" (without quotes).

What happens:
- Two results appear with the same icon underneath the "Apps" category header: "Gwibber Social Client" and "Broadcast Preferences".

Desired solution:
- "Gwibber Social Client" should be displayed underneath the "Apps" category header on a fresh Ubuntu install
- "Broadcast Preferences" should not be displayed at all

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

MPT, when I click the Massaging and VoIP Accounts icon, I get the accounts dialog. Empathy I get the contact list.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Alex, you're right, I just tried it again in a guest session. Updating.

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

@John: How is this "Fix Committed"? I can see a few possible resolutions here:

 a) Wont fix/Invalid - We accept to be in the mercy of upstream here and do nothing
 b) Create a variant for one of the icons which we distro patch in

Under all circumstances I think we need to hear the upstream voice on this...

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

A 'C' solution would be to just disable applications preferences and settings items to come in search results of dash and leave it all to gnome-control-center. That would make search results cleaner IMO.

[John Lea (johnlea)]

Bug still present and has got slightly worse ("Empathy Internet Messaging" is now also appearing under two category headers!). Description updated.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

we should just distro patch empathy and gwibber to not show their settings and preferences in the search, (that was done for gwibber at one stage)

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Would the suggestion for gwibber be to stop shipping separate launchers for preferences, accounts and the client? Ideally we would embed gwibber-preferences in control-center.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

If Gwibber uses the same accounts as other applications (i.e. Online Accounts), those accounts should go in System Settings. If it doesn't, they shouldn't. Either way, I agree the right solution is not to have separate launchers for application vs. preferences/accounts.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The empathy side of the issue got fixed in quantal by dropping empathy-preferences.desktop (the preferred way to configure account is uoa)

[John Lea (johnlea)]

@seb128; just read this bug, the title said there were two instances of *gwibber*, not empathy. However the description talked about empathy!

I've updated the bug to consistently mention gwibber, not empathy - this is still an issue.