Bug 206890

Summary:	krunner doesn't reliably show newly installed applications
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	wilderkde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Screenshot of the problem Screenshot 2a Screenshot 2b

Description Alan Jenkins 2009-09-09 19:42:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I reproduced this with

sudo aptitude install arora

alt+f2 "arora"
->
  krunner shows the _command_ arora (i.e. with a generic cog icon), but it doesn't show the application and it's specific icon.

The Kickoff search box does not suffer from the same problem.

Comment 1 Alan Jenkins 2009-09-09 19:45:31 UTC

Created attachment 36819 [details]
Screenshot of the problem

Here's a screenshot after performing the steps above.

Comment 2 Alan Jenkins 2009-09-09 19:53:11 UTC

Created attachment 36821 [details]
Screenshot 2a

And here's why I added the qualifier "reliably": this screenshot taken 5 minutes later shows the problem occurring again, but...

Comment 3 Alan Jenkins 2009-09-09 19:54:35 UTC

Created attachment 36822 [details]
Screenshot 2b

...after deleting a few letters and re-typing them, the real Arora icon shows up.  Funky.

Comment 4 Jacopo De Simoi 2010-01-02 12:20:08 UTC

This sounds like kbuildsyscoca4 is not run after installing arora (since it is 
not a kde app maybe?).
Can you reproduce with another application?
It could then be possibly a distribution issue.

Comment 5 Jacopo De Simoi 2010-01-02 12:36:42 UTC

Alan, could you tell us which kernel version are (and were) you using?
Thanks

Comment 6 Alan Jenkins 2010-01-03 12:05:51 UTC

Thanks for the interest.  I tried again with arora, kmail, and korganizer; the same thing seems to happen with all of them.

It doesn't happen with programs which I already have installed (firefox, konqueror, akregator, systemsettings).

Kernel version is 2.6.31-16-generic.

My KDE version on the same machine is now 4.3.2.

Comment 7 Pino Toscano 2010-01-03 19:05:16 UTC

This is known problem in the KIO file change class, in conjunction with an inotify behaviour change in kernel 2.6.31 (and 32 too, maybe).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207361 ***