** Also affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => precise-updates
** Branch linked: lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/unity-launcher-
integration-fixes
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999427
Title:
Launcher items added via Ubuntu Software Center incorrectly point to
the app-install desktop files rather than the actual installed desktop
files
Status in Unity:
Confirmed
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
While investigating bug 925014, I made the discovery that Unity
launcher items that are added during an application installation via
the Ubuntu Software Center incorrectly point to the desktop files from
the app-install-data package, in the directory:
/usr/share/app-install/desktop (e.g., /usr/share/app-install/desktop
/gnome-hearts:gnome-hearts.desktop
rather than the actual *installed* desktop files in:
/usr/share/applications (e.g., /usr/share/applications/gnome-
hearts.desktop)
Note that the installed desktop files can be found in the
/usr/share/applications directory after the installation has
completed.
This appears to be a regression in a very recent release of Unity, as
afaik this has worked correctly for quite a few cycles and also in
Precise right up until the very final releases.
Note that we recently finished the remaining pieces of the
implementation of the fully animated Unity launcher integration, as
outlined in bug 761851, and it was as part of this work that this
regression appears to have occurred.
You can refer to comment #7 of bug 761851 for details about the steps
needed to determine the actual installed desktop file path. The Python
code from Software Center that we used in past releases for this is as
shown:
def
convert_desktop_file_to_installed_location(app_install_data_file_path,
pkgname=None):
""" returns the installed desktop file path that corresponds to the
given app-install-data file path, and will also check directly for
the desktop file that corresponds to a given pkgname.
"""
# "normal" case
installed_desktop_file_path =
app_install_data_file_path.replace("app-install/desktop", "applications")
if os.path.exists(installed_desktop_file_path):
return installed_desktop_file_path
# next, try case where a subdirectory is encoded in the app-install
# desktop filename, e.g. kde4_soundkonverter.desktop
installed_desktop_file_path =
installed_desktop_file_path.replace(APP_INSTALL_PATH_DELIMITER, "/")
if os.path.exists(installed_desktop_file_path):
return installed_desktop_file_path
# lastly, just try checking directly for the desktop file based on the
pkgname itself
if pkgname:
installed_desktop_file_path = "/usr/share/applications/%s.desktop" %
pkgname
if os.path.exists(installed_desktop_file_path):
return installed_desktop_file_path
logging.warn("Could not determine the installed desktop file path for
app-install desktop file: '%s'" % app_install_data_file_path)
return ""
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Additional info from Dmitry Shachnev, duplicate bug 996690:
Some Unity Mail users reported that after installing Unity Mail via
the Software Center,
- The quicklist is not translated
- The count badge is not shown
Trying to debug this issue, I've found out that when installing an
application from the Software Center, the desktop file added to Unity
launcher favorites is '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/unity-mail
:unity-mail.desktop', not expected '/usr/share/applications/unity-
mail.desktop':
$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Launcher favorites
['nautilus.desktop', 'chromium-browser.desktop', 'geany.desktop',
'gnome-terminal.desktop',
'/usr/share/app-install/desktop/unity-mail:unity-mail.desktop']
I've temporarily added a workaround to Unity Mail that uses the
desktop file from Unity.LauncherFavorites (see bug 990689), but this
doesn't solve the problem with untranslated quicklist.
Obviously, this affects not only Unity Mail, but any other application
in the Software Center.
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