QMLStringAppTestCase rejected by Unity8

Doing a grep in my directory which holds a bunch of applications, I see quite a few are using the desktop_file_hint flag. I think those that point it to /usr/share/applications will succeed, so they'll be ok. But we might break other AP tests I don't have locally

So a simple fix would be to ship ubuntu-ui-toolkit-gallery.desktop in /usr/share/applications.

Another fix would be modify ubuntu-ui-toolkit-launcher to allow teaching UAL about a custom app on a temporary basis for such custom launches that aren't apps that we want to ship, but just apps-of-convenience. To do this, it could copy the provided desktop file into ~/.local/share/applications and delete it when done.

OR we could add API to UAL that allows using a custom desktop file.

I'm partial to options 1 and/or 2.

In the general case we write a .desktop file for a particular test to ~/.local/share/applications (hard-coding the exact path relative to $HOME), the gallery test is a special-case which uses the .desktop file that is installed as an example.

It makes no sense to me to add all the test cases to /usr/share/applications permanently, since we're not talking about apps but fabricated QML test cases.

Why is the gallery desktop case different? If you want to make sure your test uses that exact content, you could copy it to ~/.local/share/applications.

Is there still an issue here? We've since landed code so I'm pretty sure the tests can pass.

The tests don't pass on my amd64. I guess we need to load all QML code from external files (and not a string embedded in the python test files). So these tests need to be updated:

test_checkbox.py:class ToggleTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_common.py:class UbuntuUIToolkitCustomProxyObjectBaseTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_date_picker.py:class DatePickerBaseTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable.py:class IsFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable.py:class SwipeFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable.py:class UnityFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable_uitk10.py:class IsFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable_uitk10.py:class SwipeFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_flickable_uitk10.py:class UnityFlickableTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_listitems.py:class SwipeToDeleteTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_main_view.py:class MainView10TestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_main_view.py:class MainView12TestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_main_view.py:class GoBackTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_optionselector.py:class OptionSelectorCustomDelegateTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_optionselector.py:class OptionSelectorTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_popups.py:class ComposerSheetTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_qquicklistview.py:class QQuickListViewOutOfViewTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_textarea.py:class TextAreaTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):
test_toolbar.py:class ToolbarTestCase(tests.QMLStringAppTestCase):

I renamed the title. desktop_file_hint is not the problem, the location of the .desktop files is. The hint is in fact still needed.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.2060+16.10.20160814

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.2060+16.10.20160814) yakkety; urgency=medium

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