Games Filter in Unity doesn't work

Bug #842240 reported by Tomás Oliveira
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity-lens-applications
Fix Released
High
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Games Filter at Unity dash home doesn't work, because when selected no installed game application appears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 6 00:51:46 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_PT:en
 PATH=(cususername, no user)
 LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (0 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Tomás Oliveira (engtomas) wrote :
Robert Roth (evfool)
affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) → unity-place-applications (Ubuntu)
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

I can reproduce this. Here's a sample stdout dump of me first selecting the Internet filter and then the Games filter:

(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:335: Searching for:
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:357: Entry search listed 22 Installed apps in 2.983000ms for query: type:Application AND category:Network
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:370: SEARCH_STRING: category:Network
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:382: Entry search found 7/314 Most Used apps in 23.429000ms for query 'category:Network'
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:418: Entry search listed 12 random Available apps in 1.990000ms
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:335: Searching for:

(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-CRITICAL **: string_to_string: assertion `self != NULL' failed
** (process:16390): DEBUG: Error parsing query 'type:Application AND ': Syntax: <expression> AND <expression>
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:357: Entry search listed 0 Installed apps in 0.207000ms for query: type:Application AND
(process:16390): unity-applications-daemon-DEBUG: daemon.vala:370: SEARCH_STRING: (null)

(process:16390): LibZeitgeist-CRITICAL **: zeitgeist_index_search: assertion `query != NULL' failed

It would seem that the Games filter does not correspond to a valid query on the lens daemon side...

Changed in unity-lens-applications:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity-place-applications (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-lens-applications:
milestone: none → 0.4.6
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 4.16.0
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote :

revno: 228.1.1
    fixes bug(s): https://launchpad.net/bugs/842240
    committer: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <email address hidden>
    branch nick: now-with-N-percent-more-games
    timestamp: Mon 2011-09-12 13:46:34 +0200
    message:
      Fix typo in filter id for the Games filter

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-lens-applications:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
affects: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu) → unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-lens-applications - 0.4.6-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity-lens-applications (0.4.6-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - [dash] Category filters is sorted according to their english names,
      even when another language is used (LP: #838023)
    - application:// URIs are malformed (LP: #784478)
    - Games Filter in Unity doesn't work (LP: #842240)
  * debian/control:
    - build-dep on latest libunity-dev
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:27:11 +0200

Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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