nautilus-home.desktop not matched properly if unity is started before bamfdaemon

[Florian Boucault]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Log in Unity
2. Open a terminal and killall bamfdaemon
3. Make sure bamfdaemon is restarted
4. Click on the home folder icon in the launcher (icon corresponding to nautilus-home.desktop)

Expected Result

The icon clicked starts blinking and after a short delay a nautilus window showing the home folder appears.

Current Result

Another nautilus icon appears at the bottom of the launcher.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Relaunching Unity (unity --replace) fixes the issue. With that last observation it seems safe to say that the bug exists whenever Unity is started before bamfdaemon.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

this is because on restart your favorites are not re-registered with the daemon.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Can you be more explicit:
- what is the API call corresponding to registering favorites?
- where is the code in Unity registering the favorites?
- what does it do to register favorites?

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Confirming as Olivier observed this behaviour as well quite some time ago.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Favorite registration is done automatically when a user calls bamf_matcher_get_application_for_desktop_file, the passed desktop file gets registered as a favorite. This causes the daemon to give that .desktop file preferential treatment when a match is ambiguous, as is the case with nautilus.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Internally, bamf_matcher_get_application_for_desktop_file calls bamf_matcher_register_favorites with the full path to the desktop file for the favorite. This in turn calls the RegisterFavorites method of the matcher on dbus. Unfortunately this method is not exposed in the Qt binding at the moment.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

Unity 2D now also calls bamf_matcher_register_favorites.
This bug is still valid though.

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