Bug 8328 – all isn't showing All applications (especially the former main screen apps)

Bug 8328 - all isn't showing All applications (especially the former main screen apps)


Summary:	all isn't showing All applications (especially the former main screen apps)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Catorise
Component:	General
Version:	0.7.0
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	0.7.0
Assigned To:	Andrew Flegg
QA Contact:	general

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Depends on:	8111
Blocks:
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Reported:	2010-01-20 20:38 UTC by timeless
Modified:	2010-02-25 16:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users (show)

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Description timeless (reporter) 2010-01-20 20:38:50 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
something after 51-1
catorise 0.6.0

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. install catorise
2. open task launcher
3. open all

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
all apps

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
many are missing including Browser. actually, afaict the only item from the
main screen is Ovi Store, all of the others are missing.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
always so far

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:
enus1 (active)

Comment 1 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-01-20 21:11:33 UTC

This is a bug in hildon-desktop, all the "main screen apps" have
X-Maemo-Prestarted=always in their .desktop. If you have multiple shortcuts to
these, things don't work (see bug 8111).

I wonder, though, if a *separate* .desktop file could be created as some kind
of launcher (e.g. via DBus)

Comment 2 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-01-20 21:19:12 UTC

Creating a wrapper/shim .desktop seems to work as a workaround.

Comment 3 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-01-24 22:48:11 UTC

Fixed in 0.7.0 (to hit extras-devel soon) by creating lightweight wrappers of
the original .desktop files if X-Maemo-Prestarted is set to "always".

The ".catorise.desktop" files are removed at uninstall.

Comment 4 timeless (reporter) 2010-01-25 14:27:56 UTC

thanks

Comment 5 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-01-25 15:23:38 UTC

Unfortunately 0.7.0 breaks shortcuts on the .desktop and (obviously) lists
Phone etc in the "Add shortcut" desktop menu.

Comments about the two options (outlined here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=493581#post493581) are welcome:

1. Either the apps are listed twice in the "Add shortcut" dialogue and I try
and figure out what magic bit of the .desktop file is causing problems this
time.

2. The built-in apps on the first screen (which have X-Maemo-Prestarted=always
in their .desktop file) are missing from the "All" menu.

Comment 6 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-01-26 01:32:14 UTC

Fixed in 0.7.1, which is on its way to Extras-devel.

Comment 7 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-02-25 16:46:18 UTC

The fix is based around the shim/wrapper concept. This causes two shortcuts in
the "Add shortcut" dialogue for the desktop, but this doesn't cause any further
problems:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=545893#post545893