spinning wheel when opening Rhythmbox from Dash/Launcher WHEN it is already playing music

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Added to Trello: https://trello.com/c/ZpgGgnBd/11-bug-1582430-spinning-wheel-when-opening-rhythmbox-from-dash-launcher-when-it-is-already-playing-music

Hello nebrisi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted bamf into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello!

I installed the "bamf 0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701" package and the problem goes away for me!

Rhythmbox back to the Launcher! :)

Thanks, great work!

This bug was fixed in the package bamf - 0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1

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bamf (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * BamfMatcher: allow overriding desktop with the environment var
    BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Daemon: manually set to complete the startup notification on view
    state change (LP: #1582430)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/bamfdaemon.triggers: use interest-noawait (LP: #1589097)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:44:07 +0000

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