oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863290 Title: Bamf Ignores some local .desktop files with OnlyShowIn flag Status in BAMF Application Matching Framework: Fix Released Status in Unity: Fix Released Status in Unity 2D: Invalid Status in bamf package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bamf source package in Oneiric: Fix Released Status in unity source package in Oneiric: Won't Fix Bug description: SRU TESCASE 1 Copy a system desktop file to a local applications folder (i.e. cp /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/) 2 Customize that file, for example changing the application name or adding a quicklist without removing the OnlyShowIn parameter, or adding it setting to OnlyShowIn=Unity; 3 Restart bamfdaemon and unity (or just log-out and log-in again) 4 When running the given application in Unity, now unity should the local customized desktop file, and so the launcher, should match the changed parameters. ---- BAMF doesn't consider any .desktop file saved in ~/.local/share/applications or any other local folder which contains the flag OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; so, it's impossible to directly copy any .desktop file from /usr/share/applications to a local folder to customize it, without removing the above flag, and this is wrong. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bamf/+bug/863290/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp