[launcher] KDE3 Applications do not appear in launcher

Having the same problem. On my system it also occurs with 'Kile,' the other reasonable LaTeX editor.

This problem does not exist in Unity 3D.

Quanta is also affected by this bug, see bug #790539

After investigation it turns out that the BamfApplication's user_visible property is set to false for some KDE3 applications such as Kommander Editor (package kommander-kde3) which means that the launcher is not going to display it. See line 232 of libunity-2d-private/Unity2d/launcherapplicationslist.cpp:

    if (!bamf_application->user_visible()) {
        return;
    }

It seems that the property user_visible is set to true very quickly after the signal ViewOpened is emitted but it's already too late.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-2d - 3.8.12-0ubuntu1

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unity-2d (3.8.12-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Florian Boucault ]
  * Upstreamed patch 01_build_with_new_indicator.patch
  * do not run pkgbinarymangler to convert images to 8bit since this breaks
    the launcher icon background handling. (LP: #809205)
    (QT upstream bug: http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-4459)
  * debian/unity-2d.install:
    - install GSettings schemas into usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
    - install GConf to GSettings conversion into usr/share/GConf/gsettings
  * debian/gconf/schemas/unity-2d.schemas:
    - remove GConf schema for /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/super_key_enable
    - remove GConf schema for /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/favorites
  * debian/20_unity-2d-gconf-default:
    - remove default value for /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/super_key_enable
    - remove default value for /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/favorites
  * debian/control:
    - add dependency on libdconf-qt-dev
    - add dependency on libnux-1.0-dev

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * New upstream release:
    - [dash] preferred applications are not stored in GConf anylonger
      (LP: #805063)
    - [launcher] Tiles background is white/grey instead of the color of the
      icon (oneiric only) (LP: #809205)
    - [dash] Keyboard navigation not implemented as specified (LP: #608132)
    - Unity 2D should use dconf instead of gconf (LP: #692965)
    - [launcher] KDE3 Applications do not appear in launcher (LP: #719983)
    - ubuntu-bug showing that I am running unity-2D, when reporting from
      Compiz Unity interface (LP: #712343)
    - Apps pinned in launcher not retained between 2D and 3D Unity versions
      (LP: #746823)
    - [dash] Cannot have KDE4 applications as shortcuts on home screen
      (LP: #750081)
    - [panel] F10 shortcut does not navigate from application menu to
      indicators (LP: #772061)
    - [panel] F10 shortcut does not show application menu (LP: #777993)
    - [dash] Wine applications are not launched (LP: #794471)
    - [spread] GnomeBackground needs to use dconf to retrieve image path
      (LP: #805393)
    - [dash] transparency broken and graphical artifacts when using opengl
      backend (LP: #806019)
    - [dash] Enter no longer launches first item (LP: #811673)
    - [panel] navigation between application menus temporarily gives focus
      back to the application (LP: #717682)
    - [panel] Empathy's emotes not visible in panel menus (LP: #742822)
    - pgadmin3 not handled by unity-2d (LP: #800710)
    - [dash] slow rendering of background with opengl engine (LP: #806122)
    - [spread] Wallpaper is shifted by the width of the launcher (LP: #808712)
    - [launcher] Migrate gconf key /desktop/unity-2d/launcher/super_key_enable
      to dconf (LP: #810509)
    - [panel] application name cut when menu bar visible should use a fade
      (LP: #704615)
    - [panel] Window title could use a little fade (LP: #694924)
    - [launcher] Codeblocks doesn't appear in the list of applications
      (LP: #716524)
  * Fix typo in trigger (debian/unity-2d.triggers): (LP: #807358)
  * Install the apport hook in the right directory so that it's not laun...