Comment 5 for bug 723604

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Joaquin (jknvv13) wrote : Re: [Bug 723604] Re: [dash] applications with capital letters in their desktop file name cannot be launched

Fixed.
PlayOnLinux working. :)

2011/3/17 Alex Chiang <email address hidden>

> Backported to Charlotte, confirmed that an app like FBReader launches
> successfully from dash.
>
> ** Changed in: charlotte
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Alex Chiang (achiang)
>
> ** Changed in: charlotte
> Milestone: None => m4-rc1
>
> ** Changed in: charlotte
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: charlotte
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723604
>
> Title:
> [dash] applications with capital letters in their desktop file name
> cannot be launched
>
> Status in The Charlotte project:
> Fix Committed
> Status in Unity 2D:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Hi
>
> Description: Ubuntu 10.10
> Release: 10.10
> unity-2d:
> Installed: 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405
> Candidate: 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405
> Version table:
> *** 0.4-0ubuntu1~bzr405 0
> 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/unity-2d-team/unity-2d-daily/ubuntu/maverick/main i386 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> What Happened:
> When I click on some applications in unity (from the main applications
> menu [dash]) it doesn't actually start the application. I have to then
> manually run the application from terminal.
> Some examples of this:
> Search And Rescue - Command: SearchAndRescue
> xplanetFX - Command: xplanetFX
>
> What I expected to happen:
> I expected unity to start the application as normal.
>
> A side note: It wouldn't be to do with the capital letters in the
> commands would it?
>
> Also SearchAndRescue and xplanetfx are available from the USC, if you
> need to test them.
>
> Hope this can be fixed soon.
>
> Andy
>
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