unity-lens-applications

Missing applications in Unity Applications Place

Bug #600187 reported by Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
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Ubuntu Software Center
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auto-mvo
Unity
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High
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
Unity 2010-09-09 "0.2.36"
unity-lens-applications
Fix Released
High
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Gnome Control Center should be included in the System section in the Unity Applications Place. Likewise for other utilities provided by Gnome such as gnome-display-properties et al.

See original description
Tags: metabug
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
summary: - gnome contrl center missing in the System section
+ gnome control center missing in the System section
Changed in unity-place-applications:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote : Re: gnome control center missing in the System section

I am working with mvo on this because we need some hooks from the software-center index for this to work smoothly

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
Changed in unity-place-applications:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote : Re: Missing applications

Here are some examples of missing apps:

System section: gnome-control-center and gnome-appearance-properties

Any app with .desktop files installed outside /usr/share/applications (which is normally picked up via XDG_DATA_DIRS)

summary: - gnome control center missing in the System section
+ Missing applications
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

Also reported (copied from bug #601032): deja-dup and baobab.

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote : Re: Missing applications in Unity Files Place

So; the deal is that Ubuntu's software-center blacklists some of the standard gnome utils that it doesn't make sense to regard as components you can browse in a software store. Makes sense. However, unity-place-files needs to be able to find these apps in a way that integrates with our normal Xapian queries to the S-C index.

I talked to MVO at some point about this and he was open to the idea of adding these blacklisted apps to the index in some way.

description: updated
summary: - Missing applications
+ Missing applications in Unity Files Place
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 600187] Re: Missing applications

I can't find Gnome Terminal, does Software Center really blacklist that?

Mark

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Ritz (jonas-ritz) wrote : Re: Missing applications in Unity Files Place

yes if you could add an terminal icon in bar at left it would be easyer to report bugs

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 600187] Re: Missing applications in Unity Files Place

I don't mind putting Gnome Terminal in the launcher by default during
the development cycle, it should be dropped for beta or RC.

Mark

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote : Re: Missing applications in Unity Files Place

Hmmm, right, Gnome Terminal shows up in S-C, but not in Unity. So there are probably two different issues at play here.

Changed in unity-place-applications:
importance: Low → High
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 2010-08-26
status: New → Triaged
summary: - Missing applications in Unity Files Place
+ Missing applications in Unity Applications Place
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

I fixed one half of the problem in trunk now. The part with missing Gnome Terminal.

The problem was that gnome-terminal.desktop has OnlyShowIn=gnome set.

In order for g_app_info_should_show () to return the correct value we need to call g_desktop_app_info_set_desktop_env ("GNOME") on daemon startup.

papukaija (papukaija)
tags: added: metabug
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-08-26 → 2010-09-02
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Ritz (jonas-ritz) wrote :

The terminal is there now.
But it never shows up in most used.

Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-09-02 → 2010-09-16
milestone: 2010-09-16 → 2010-09-09
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

Ritz: Yeah - there are a few planets that still needs to align for that to happen:

 1) Proper "Recent Apps" tracking only landed last week - so the Zeitgeist log still needs to be populated with your recent apps

 2) Right now we'll only send log data to Zeitgeist when you launch and app from the launcher - not when you launch from the apps place. This is a bug of course, which I hope to fix this week.

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

All apps should be available in trunk now.

Regarding apps not showing up in the Most Used group that is logged as bug #632203

Changed in unity-place-applications:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

I worked around this so I don't need support from the S-C index

Changed in software-center:
status: New → Invalid
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-place-applications:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Marco Lutz (marcolutz) wrote :

Hello,

baobab does still not appear in the unity applications place.
I'm using a German Ubuntu 10.10 with unity.

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papukaija (papukaija) wrote :

Confirming. Baobab is not shown.

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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