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Do should look through local .desktop files before system ones

Bug #283804 reported by Alex Launi
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Bug Description

I used Alacarte to chang the exec command for Terminal from "gnome-terminal" to "gnome-terminal --hide-menubar" (I also changed the comment from "Use the command line" to something sillly).

Alacarte added the file .local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop, which reflects the changes appropriately.

Gnome-do does not seem to acknowledge this - it still shows the same description and launches the old command.

^
from a LP answers question. We should search the local desktop files first, and then do system so that we can keep up with people's customizations.

David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)
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assignee: nobody → djsiegel
status: New → Confirmed
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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We now scan the custom ones first, and ignore old (hidden) launchers, so hopefully this will express the behavior you are looking for.

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status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Dusan Maliarik (dusan-maliarik) wrote :

this is marked as "fix commited", but in 0.8 series I ame still experiencing Do to launch system desktop files instead of mine.

For example I would like to modify (using alacarte) desktop file of Pidgin, say, change icon, and I would expect this changed desktop file to have precedence over that global/shared one, so I can see my customized icon, or, for example have this app launched with my own arguments

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Dusan Maliarik (dusan-maliarik) wrote :

you've made a 0.8 release including this "major" bug? it doesn't update icons, nor the commands

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status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
Robert Dyer (psybers)
Changed in do:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Robert Dyer (psybers)
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status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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