Apps with capital letters in their .desktop file name won't launch
Bug #1214428 reported by
Michael Hall
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unity 8 |
Triaged
|
High
|
Gerry Boland | ||
| unity-mir |
Triaged
|
High
|
Gerry Boland | ||
Bug Description
Somewhere the .desktop file's name is being converted into lowercase, which then causes it to fail. For example, I have uReadIt.desktop, but when trying to launch it from the Unity 8 Dash I get the following in the logs:
Unable to activate "ureadit.desktop"
Renaming uReadIt.desktop to ureadit.desktop allows the app to launch again.
| no longer affects: | unity |
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: appstore |
| Changed in unity8: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| importance: | Medium → High |
| Changed in unity-mir: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in unity8: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Gerry Boland (gerboland) |
| Changed in unity-mir: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Gerry Boland (gerboland) |
| Changed in unity8: | |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-13.10 |
| Changed in unity-mir: | |
| milestone: | none → phone-v1-freeze |
| Changed in unity8: | |
| milestone: | ubuntu-13.10 → phone-v1-freeze |
Revision history for this message
| Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity-mir: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
To post a comment you must log in.
click explicitly permits upper-case in application names, so this ought to be permitted in Unity 8 too.