** No longer affects: unity-mir -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-menus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1204599
Title: Unity does not pick up changes to ~/.local/share/applications if it doesn't exist when Unity starts Status in Unity Applications Lens: New Status in “gnome-menus” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “qtubuntu” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On an up to date saucy/touch/mako image on package install, click packages create a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications. After which, the user can tap 'Search' under the applications scope and find the new app. However, this does not work properly if ~/.local/share/applications does not exist at the time Unity started, which is the case on at least the mako saucy touch image. Steps to reproduce: 1. mv ~/.local/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications.bak 2. reboot 3. install a click package (or drop a properly formatted (see bug #1204595) desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications 4. search the Dash for the package The Dash won't find the package in step 4 until restarting Unity. After rebooting, installing click packages or adding desktop files works as expected (ie, you can find them in step 4). I don't know if this worked properly or not in Unity 7. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-applications/+bug/1204599/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
