unity-mir

Unity 8 does not properly parse legitimate desktop files

Bug #1204595 reported by Jamie Strandboge on 2013-07-24

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	unity-mir	In Progress	Medium	Gerry Boland	unity-mir phone-v1-freeze
	qtubuntu (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Basically two issues that I found:
1. Unity 8 wants '[Desktop Entry]' to be on the first line
2. Unity 8 doesn't like the spaces around '='

Unity 7 handles these fine.

Eg:

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp_evilapp_0.1.desktop # NOT WORKING
# Generated by "click desktophook"; changes here will be overwritten.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec = aa-exec -p com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp_evilapp_0.1 -- /usr/bin/qmlscene -I /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/backend/modules run /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/app/evilapp.qml
Icon = /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/app/graphics/scheming.png
Name=EvilApp
Comment=Ubuntu Evil App to test application confinement
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
X-Ubuntu-StageHint=SideStage
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=evilapp
Path = /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp_evilapp_0.1.desktop # WORKING
[Desktop Entry]
# Generated by "click desktophook"; changes here will be overwritten.
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=aa-exec -p com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp_evilapp_0.1 -- /usr/bin/qmlscene -I /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/backend/modules run /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/app/evilapp.qml
Icon=/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1/app/graphics/scheming.png
Name=EvilApp
Comment=Ubuntu Evil App to test application confinement
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
X-Ubuntu-StageHint=SideStage
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=evilapp
Path=/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.jdstrand.evilapp/0.1

Related branches

lp://qastaging/~saviq/qtubuntu/more-robust-desktop-parsing

Rejected for merging into lp://qastaging/qtubuntu

Gerry Boland (community): Disapprove on 2014-04-04

PS Jenkins bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration) on 2013-11-18

lp://qastaging/~gerboland/unity-mir/more-robust-desktop-file-parsing

Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) on 2013-07-24

no longer affects:

unity-mir (Ubuntu)

Gerry Boland (gerboland) on 2013-07-24

Changed in unity-mir:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Michał Sawicz (saviq) on 2013-07-25

Changed in qtubuntu (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq)