Unity has no method to maintain properties of launchers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Opinion
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
unity-launcher-editor |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Opinion
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
In Unity I would like to have multiple icons for one application in the same way that I do on my classic GNOME desktop. One points the standard application binary, another has parameters appended. Right now I'm told that the user has to maintain .desktop text files as there is no GUI for setting this.
In GNOME 2 we were able to maintain the 'properties' of a launcher with Right Click -> Properties. Can this functionality be ported to Unity please?
Use case 1: Mark is a web developer and needs to test sites under multiple personalities (admin, user, non-authorised user) in Firefox. This is achieved with multiple profiles, each with their own cookies, add-ons, cache etc.
firefox -profilemanager
Use case 2: Andy is a systems administrator and uses ssh frequently to access a set of known boxes
ssh kwak.example.com
ssh faustino.
Use case 3: Alan is testing some software, and would like to always run it in debug mode so that he can give the verbose results of his testing to the developer
tomboy --debug
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.2.12-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 260.19.29 Wed Dec 8 12:08:56 PST 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-1ubuntu6)
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 19 16:18:41 2011
DistUpgraded: Yes, recently upgraded Log time: 2011-01-19 12:33:17.207056
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-current, 260.19.29, 2.6.37-12-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current, 260.19.29, 2.6.35-24-generic, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 3.2.12, 2.6.37-12-generic, x86_64: installed
vboxhost, 3.2.12, 2.6.35-24-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard: Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc. Device [107d:2a62]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: unity
UnitySupportTest:
dmi.bios.date: 04/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: ASUS P5N32-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1801
dmi.board.name: P5N32-E SLI
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.XX
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | Jason Smith (jassmith) → Neil J. Patel (njpatel) |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6 → 3.6.2 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6.2 → 3.6.6 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 3.6.6 → backlog |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → nobody |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | High → Medium |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
security vulnerability: | no → yes |
security vulnerability: | yes → no |
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This is interesting, Jason, could bamf handle something like this? UI wise, I'll add an ayatana-design task to see what they think.