desktop files added from subdirectory don't persist in launcher

[icb410]

Wine creates .desktop files in a subdirectory of ~/.local/share/applications/. ie:

~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Word 2007.desktop

When added to the launcher, they appear fine but disappear after logging out and back in.

Doing gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites gives:

['nautilus-home.desktop', .... , 'wine-Programs-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office Word 2007.desktop']

Note that the '/' has been converted to '-'

setting gsettings to:

['nautilus-home.desktop', .... , 'wine/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Word 2007.desktop']

Allows the launcher to persist in the launcher favorites bar.

This bug should be corrected so that the '/' is not converted to '-'

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Highly related to bug #704187 though not a duplicate.

[icb410 (ian-berke)]

This isn't a wine issue. It's a subdirectory thing. It seems that if you put a .desktop file > 1 subdirectory down, it won't work. I tested this with chromium.desktop.

Placing it in ~/.local/share/applications/test/ creates an entry in gsettings "test-chromium.desktop" and it persists when I log out/in.

Placing it in ~/.local/share/applications/test/test2/ creates an entry in gsettings "test-test2-chomrium.desktop" and it no longer persists.

If I make the entry with "/" instead of "-" it persists no matter what.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Seems fixed in Ubuntu 14.04. Please reopen the bug if not.