Comment 5 for bug 1645798

Looking at /root/snap/unity8-session/common/.cache/upstart/scope-registry.log, there are lots of messages along the following lines:

scoperegistry: ignoring scope "clickscope": cannot create metadata: unity::SyscallException: RegistryObject::create_desktop_file: unable to create desktop file: "/root/snap/unity8-session/common/.local/share/applications/clickscope.desktop" (errno = 2)

The problem is that the applications subdirectory does not exist, but scopes expect that directory to be pre-installed. In turn, failure to create the desktop file causes the registry to not add metadata for local scopes.

After creating the directory, the errors go away, and unity8-dash.log looks clean. I'm seeing results from 7digital and amazon on a search (albeit without thumbnails) once the applications directory exists, which indicates that the scopes infrastructure is working.