unity-lens-applications

Disk Usage Analyzer missing from applications place

Bug #660984 reported by Nick Weeds on 2010-10-15

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Unity	Fix Released	Low	Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen	Unity 3.6.2
unity-lens-applications	Fix Released	Low	Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen	unity-lens-applications 0.2.36
gnome-utils (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

The "Disk Usage Analyzer" application is missing from the applications place.

There appears to be a problem with the way that Unity applications place uses .desktop files...

The /usr/share/applications/baobab.desktop and ~/.local/share/applications/baobab.desktop files both exist, but Unity ignores them - the "Disk Usage Analyzer" application is missing from the applications place.

If I put a copy of baobab.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications and change the Categories line then the "Disk Usage Analyzer" application IS shown in the applications place. See the npw.baobab.desktop file attached.

Having to find and edit .desktop files is well beyond the capabilities of many users.

Missing applications is an important drawback for an application launcher!

Related branches

lp:unity-lens-applications

lp:~ubuntu-desktop/unity-lens-applications/ubuntu (Merged)

lp:ubuntu/natty/unity-place-applications

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Nick Weeds (nickweeds) wrote on 2010-10-15:

Fixed desktop file Edit (418 bytes, text/plain)

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote on 2010-10-18:

Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.

The patch isn't the right fix. We ignored this application on purpose in lucid for UNE and I think unity copied it and is ignoring it too in the place applications. We should fix that.

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in ubuntu-netbook-default-settings (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-02-12:

the issue still exists in natty where ubuntu-netbook-default-settings package is not installed.

Changed in ubuntu-netbook-default-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Invalid
affects:	ubuntu-netbook-default-settings (Ubuntu) → gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
importance:	Low → Medium
status:	Invalid → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-02-14:

that's not a gnome-utils issue

Changed in gnome-utils (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-02-14:

unity-place-applications.menu.in has baobab in its exlcude list for some reason

affects:	unity (Ubuntu) → unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
affects:	unity → unity-place-applications

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-02-14: Re: [Bug 660984] Re: Disk Usage Analyzer missing from applications place

might have something to do with the fact that baobab was hidden from the
netbook-launcher too and unity was initially for netbooks.

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> unity-place-applications.menu.in has baobab in its exlcude list for some
> reason
>
>

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-02-21

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2011-03-06:

@Omer: Yeah, it was just a relic from our netbook days :-) Fixed in trunk.

Changed in unity-place-applications:
assignee:	nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
milestone:	none → 0.2.36
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance:	Undecided → Low
milestone:	none → 3.6.2
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) on 2011-03-07

Changed in unity-place-applications:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-03-07:

This bug was fixed in the package unity-place-applications - 0.2.36-0ubuntu1

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unity-place-applications (0.2.36-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Unintuative Application Matching (LP: #726711)
    - dash search does not find names with '-' (d-feet, e-mail) (LP: #729025)
    - not installed apps sorting in global search (LP: #636996)
    - Speed up searches for Installed apps (LP: #730048)
    - English printf string hard to translate (LP: #641480)
    - Disk Usage Analyzer missing from applications place (LP: #660984)
  * debian/control:
    - bump dee and libunity req. to latest and greatest
-- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:07:41 +0100