Bug 340256

Summary:	Launchers not working for certain applications
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Ruchir Brahmbhatt <ruchir.brahmbhatt>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	arambuladuransergio, hein, mklapetek, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.1.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/83c5c176567177f70458a0f2890570613b70ab07	Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2014-10-23 12:43:06 UTC

When I right click chrome icon/task in panel and select "show a launcher when not running", it creates launcher but when I try to launch application using it, it doesn't work as expected. It opens program selection dialog to select program to open that executable file. I tried few frequently used applications but chrome doesn't seem to work out of those. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open google chrome
2. Right click taskbar entry and select "Show A Launcher When Not Running".
3. Close chrome.
4. Click newly created launcher

Actual Results:  
Opens program selection dialog to open executable file. 

Expected Results:  
Application should launch

Comment 1 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2014-10-23 13:01:46 UTC

I figured out the problem. When I launch chrome from krunner by hitting alt+f2 and then typing chrome and selecting chrome, it takes /opt/google/chrome/chrome as launcher path and it doesn't work. When I open chrome from Application Launcher and then pin it to panel, then it works because in that case it takes /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable as path.

Comment 2 Marco Martin 2014-10-24 10:58:41 UTC

so there are two copies of chrome installed which one is not working?
ifthat's the case this is not valid, since we can't know what is the working one ;)

Comment 3 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2014-10-24 11:01:40 UTC

No just one copy is installed. But different file paths are detected when launched from krunner or application launcher.

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2014-10-24 11:02:28 UTC

What does it say as the group in krunner to the left of where you see chrome? Does it say "Applications" or "Command Line"

Comment 5 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2014-10-24 11:18:22 UTC

It says "Applications"

Comment 6 Martin Klapetek 2014-10-24 16:25:54 UTC

Maybe related to bug 335877

Comment 7 Sergio Durán 2014-11-07 04:42:18 UTC

Related with the bug #340699

Comment 8 Eike Hein 2014-11-07 15:27:51 UTC

Git commit 83c5c176567177f70458a0f2890570613b70ab07 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 07/11/2014 at 15:26.
Pushed by hein into branch 'master'.

Install taskmanagerrulesrc again and add a mapping for Google-chrome-stable.

Google Chrome Beta uses a WM_CLASS matching it's .desktop storage id but
the stable version does not.
Related: bug 340699

M  +2    -0    libtaskmanager/CMakeLists.txt
M  +1    -0    libtaskmanager/taskmanagerrulesrc

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/83c5c176567177f70458a0f2890570613b70ab07