Ticket #1053 (closed defect: duplicate)
Application menu update
| Reported by: | emreturkay@… | Owned by: | thomas@… |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | |
| Component: | openmoko-today | Version: | 2007.2 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | buglog@… | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | PatchReviewResult: | ||
| Reproducible: |
Description
When a new desktop file is installed there is no way to refresh the application
menu contents, the reboot is required. There should be a way to refresh the
application menu or better it should be done automatically.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by thomas@…
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to duplicate
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by emreturkay@…
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution duplicate deleted
This bug is not related with the application manager, when a new application is
installed via another way i.e., ipkg install there is no way to update the
application browser.
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by thomas@…
Please re-read #927 and clarify your problem. At the moment you seem to be
describing exactly the same issue.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by emreturkay@…
To duplicate the problem:
Create a test_bug.desktop in /usr/share/applications and fill it in as
cat > test_bug.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=test-bug
Exec=/usr/bin/ls
Icon=applications-games
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game
StartupNotify?=true
SingleInstance?=true
Comment=To test the bug.
Save it.
Open the application browser.
It's not there, and there is no way to load it.

* This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 927 *