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unity-scope-click package

Apps scope crashes due to malformed AppID in .desktop file

Bug #1530841 reported by Daniel d'Andrada on 2016-01-04

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Canonical System Image	Fix Released	Critical	Pat McGowan	Canonical System Image ww02-2016 "ota9"
	unity-scope-click (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	dobey

Bug Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1 - Copy football.desktop (see attachment) to /home/phablet/.local/share/applications
2 - Copy football-ball.png [1] to /home/phablet/animatedDemos
3 - Pull down the Apps scope in unity8-dash to refresh it

Expected outcome:
I should see a football icon the Apps scope. Or, if there's something wrong in that desktop file, I should at least see the same list of applications as before.

Actual outcome:
Nothing is shown at all. The apps scope remains empty.

Comments:
I was trying to have an icon in the apps scope point to a test application of mine.
Removing that desktop file from the applications dir makes the apps scope work again

[1] - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dandrader/+junk/animatedDemos/download/head:/footballball.png-20140319191707-ez6oj9qlrwtvziw5-7/football-ball.png

See original description

Related branches

lp:~dobey/unity-scope-click/bad-appid

Merged into lp:unity-scope-click at revision 400

Charles Kerr (community): Approve on 2016-01-05

PS Jenkins bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2016-01-04

Revision history for this message

Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader) wrote on 2016-01-04:

The offending desktop file Edit (227 bytes, text/plain)

description:

updated

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-01-04:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

dobey (dobey) on 2016-01-04

Changed in unity-scope-click (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Critical
assignee:	nobody → Rodney Dawes (dobey)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) on 2016-01-04

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee:	nobody → Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)
importance:	Undecided → Critical
milestone:	none → ww02-2016
status:	New → Confirmed

dobey (dobey) on 2016-01-04

summary:

- Apps scope stops working due to a simple desktop file
+ Apps scope crashes due to malformed AppID in .desktop file

Revision history for this message

dobey (dobey) wrote on 2016-01-04:

A quick workaround for this before the fix lands, is to just remove the "X-Ubuntu-Application-ID" field from the .desktop file.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2016-01-08

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-01-10:

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-click - 0.1.1+16.04.20160106-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-click (0.1.1+16.04.20160106-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Rodney Dawes ]
  * Add the fallback attribute to the result components. (LP: #1520631)
  * Handle App-ID fields that aren't package_app_version as "unknown."
    (LP: #1530841)

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