Regression: .desktop file for Firefox ESR malfunctions #1309
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Ok. I appreciate that you have tested and reported a lot so far, but I agree. We need more people to test on various DE setups and hardware. So far it seems you have had the hardest migration path due to maybe your DE and/or other customizations. So maybe we need some more rounds of revisions first. But we also need better issue reports that helps debug and track the issues, pinpoint which commit/PR it happened in or even which line of the code. If you learn how to use git and run the project from source, git bisect etc you could help us trace the performance issues down. While we appreciate reporting issues, the reality is that most of the issues created are not helpful to us, because people keep reporting v5 issues that was already reported, many which have been fixed in v6, and often with insufficient details making the issues non-actionable for us (and "us" is mainly me coding in my spare time after work). |
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Thanks. I am afraid that I am not quite clear about the meaning of some of what you wrote. If one idea is that one can avoid a problem by unchecking 'switch to application if it's already running', then there is thisdrawback: one might well want that functionality (when it works). Also: 'you can maybe try setting StartupWMClass [. .]' - what, within the relevant .desktop file? My setup on my Mint computers is customised heavily in some ways, but not, I imagine, in relevant ways. For, the main customisations are: udev rules; elaborate (but optimised) Conky; custom panels; use of the dock called 'Plank'. '[W]e also need better issue reports' . . 'that helps debug and track the issues, pinpoint which commit/PR it happened in or even which line of the code. If you learn how to use git and run the project from source, git bisect etc you could help us trace the performance issues down. While we appreciate reporting issues, the reality is that most of the issues created are not helpful to us, because people keep reporting v5 issues that was already reported, many which have been fixed in v6, and often with insufficient details making the issues non-actionable for us [. . .] The problems that I have reported recently are regressions. As to building the project and bisecting: I have some experience of doing those things (with other projects) but since as I reported I was spending too much time on Ulauncher already, then I must pass. Sorry. I do appreciate Ulauncher: I tried various launchers; Ulauncher is the one I like best; and it is because I use it all the time that I cannot afford to have problems with it. If you take donations, then I will give you (a small) one. |
Environment
Mint Cinnamon 21.2
Bug description
I have a file
~/.local/share/applications/Firefox (ESR, no proxy).desktop. Here are its contents.The file worked fine via Ulauncher 4. Under Ulauncher 5, the file works if Firefox - the 'release' a.k.a. normal version, not the Extended Support Release - is not running. If the normal version of Firefox is running, then Ulauncher either switches to that existing window or else starts a new Firefox-normal window. What should happen, of course, is that a Firefox ESR window opens.
I am afraid that using the Ulauncher beta is causing me too many problems and causing me to spend too much time on bug reports. As of now, I have gone back to version 4. I will use version 5 when that version is ready! I note further that version 5 is noticeably less responsive on my system than version 5.
Log output
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Not an extension issue
Ulauncher v6
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