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Search results shows desktop entries with NoDisplay set to true causing duplicated list items

Bug #1082677 reported by Aditya2204 on 2012-11-24

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When searching for software many a time multiple entries with same name and attributes i.e.symbol, description and number in front of them (not always though) are displayed.

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Aditya2204 (aditya2204) wrote on 2012-11-24:

The given situation. Edit (95.1 KiB, image/jpeg)

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-11-24:

The reason for this seems to me that the app-install-data-ubuntu package (with the metainformation for the applications) contains two desktop files, one for starting epiphany, and another for opening a new tab with epiphany (with NoDisplay set to True, so it should not be displayed in the software list), but it is still displayed. This is not an exceptional case, software-center should really do something about this, the number of similar reports is getting higher and higher: see just a few: bug #1068444 for nautilus being displayed twice, bug #999204 for krita, etc.

All in all: apps with desktop files with NoDisplay set to True should not show up in the list, and I am updating the bug title with this information.

summary:	- Search results shows multiple entries of same application + Search results shows desktop entries with NoDisplay set to tru
summary:	- Search results shows desktop entries with NoDisplay set to tru + Search results shows desktop entries with NoDisplay set to true causing + duplicated list items
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-11-24:

Another report with banshee and rhythmbox is reported in bug #1049835.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-11-29:

<mvo> mpt: yes, I think that is valid. if we do not display NoDisplay=true we would miss out on some like bzr-gtk, deja-dup and more ~174 according to my counting
<mvo> mpt: this may actually be a good thing
<mvo> mpt: or we need to manually inspect them all
<mpt> mvo, e.g. to investigate why bzr-gtk has NoDisplay=true?
<mvo> mpt: yeah
<mvo> mpt: or selectively blacklist/whitelist the ones that have this property