Unity 8 Desktop Preview session does not show (most) installed apps
Bug #1300925 reported by
Stephen M. Webb
This bug affects 9 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unity-scope-click (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Alejandro J. Cura | ||
| unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Up until some time in Late March 2014 Unity 8 listed all applications installed on the system if they had an appropriate .desktop file installed. After some recent update, only a short list of applications ever show up. Event the core apps installed from ppa:ubuntu-
It seems that only click apps are now runnable from Unity 8, making it impossible to develop and test apps on Unity 7 and verify in Unity 8 on the desktop.
Related branches
lp:~alecu/unity-scope-click/desktop-apps-toggle
- dobey (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot: Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 491 lines (+260/-68)9 files modifiedscope/click/interface.cpp (+51/-6)
scope/click/interface.h (+4/-0)
scope/tests/applications/user/com.ubuntu.weather_weather_1.0.168.desktop (+4/-3)
scope/tests/applications/user/non-click-app-nodisplay.desktop (+9/-0)
scope/tests/applications/user/non-click-app-onlyshowin-gnome-unity.desktop (+10/-0)
scope/tests/applications/user/non-click-app-onlyshowin-gnome.desktop (+10/-0)
scope/tests/applications/user/non-click-app-onlyshowin-unity.desktop (+10/-0)
scope/tests/applications/user/non-click-app-without-exception.desktop (+3/-4)
scope/tests/test_interface.cpp (+159/-55)
lp:~alecu/unity8-desktop-session/click-scope-show-desktop-apps
- Stephen M. Webb (community): Approve
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Diff: 11 lines (+1/-0)1 file modifieddata/unity8-mir.conf.in (+1/-0)
| Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Revision history for this message
| Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: regression-release |
| Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Alejandro J. Cura (alecu) |
| Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #3 |
| tags: | added: gtk-mir |
| tags: | added: unity8-desktop |
Revision history for this message
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Incomplete |
Revision history for this message
| Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
| importance: | Medium → High |
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The only packages that work on he desktop are those that have .desktop files that appear in a hard-coded list in the unity-scope-click package. Unfortunatey, many of those hard-coded .desktop file names don't even match the .desktop file names associated with the packages of the same name.