GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98752
all-applications:// is not working
Last modified: 2005-01-04 22:12:21 UTC
all-applications:// method is not working with current gnome-vfs HEAD. It tries to read $sysconfdir/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info which is not existent in the default instalation.
Vfolder checks lots of different places for the .vfolder-info file to use. Is the run dialog in the panel showing any applications under known-applications? If so, its probably not a bug in all-applications.
If I type all-applications:// in nautilus, it doesn't show anything. Also running a gnome_vfs_directory_visit("all-applications:///" ...) gets no results. BTW applications-all-users:// show them. There is no all-applications.vfolder.
After some testing I discovered the next: If you put all-applications:/// for the first time, you get nothing. If you put then applications:/// you get the classified list. If you put after this all-applications:/// again, this time it works and you get the unclassified list of applications.
Created attachment 13282 [details] Testcase to show the bug
This is fixed, right, Fernando?
I can still reproduce this (all-applications:/// showing nothing, then applications:/// showing something, then all-applications:/// showing the whole list). On nautilus 2.7.2.
I have a somewhat similar bug, not sure this is the same. (nautilus 2.8.2, gnome-vfs 2.8.3, Debian packages) applications:// looked empty; applications-all-users:// looked full; going back to applications:// and it was populated. Running the attached testcase produces "Result: No error" each time but the first applications:// is empty while the last one is full. But then it goes crazy and if I open three nautilus windows (applications://, applications-all-users:// and all-applications://) I can watch them refresh themselves and gaining and losing items randomly.
Created attachment 35040 [details] testcase ouptut
Ok; fixed locally. It was caused by
[sorry for incomplete comment] It was caused by a local .desktop file with a blank line before the [Desktop] line.
Sorry to spam this bugreport but I was wrong and fixing the .desktop file didn't change anything. But it looks like it is not only applications:// that has a problem for me but the all gnome-vfs2 (plain files vanish too).
Closing this since the vfolder method has been removed. Please file bugs against gnome-menus if this is still a problem in 2.9.x