Ubuntu
unity8 package

Unity8 crashes when launching apps without an icon entry in their .desktop file

Bug #1591192 reported by Michael Sheldon
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ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install the attached click package

2. Start the application

Expected results:

Application should start

Actual results:

Unity8 crashes

See original description
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Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon) wrote :
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Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon) wrote :
summary: - Unity8 crashes when starting keyboard autopilot tests
+ Unity8 crashes when launching apps without an icon entry in their
+ .desktop file
description: updated
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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

As per http://paste.ubuntu.com/17290875/ seems an ubuntu-app-launch bug

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

Seems like a desktop file should always have an Icon. We're throwing an exception because the application desktop file is invalid. I think that's a reasonable thing to do.

Changed in ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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dobey (dobey) wrote :

Per https://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html Icon is not a required field and I do not think we should be so cavalierly throwing exceptions in such cases of certain fields not being in .desktop files. We should be extremely lenient on input.

Changed in ubuntu-app-launch (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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