@all, thanks for looking into this.
@Mikkel, I've looked at your analysis and tried a test case and agree.
However, I believe unity isn't implementing the XDG spec fully. The
spec [1], says this about <AppDir>s:
If the directory contains sub-directories then these sub-directories
should be (recursively) scanned as well. The name of the subdirectory
should be added as prefix to the desktop-file id together with a dash
character ("-") So given a <AppDir> /foo/bar and desktop entry
/foo/bar/booz/Hello.desktop the desktop entry would get a desktop-file
id of booz-Hello.desktop A desktop entry /foo/bar/bo/oz/Hello.desktop
would result in a desktop-file id of bo-oz-Hello.desktop
Therefore I believe unity should be searching for the desktop file for
id bo-oz-Hello in applications/bo-oz-Hello.desktop and
applications/bo/oz/Hello.desktop with the former taking precedence it it
exists.
Do you agree?
Also, I'm sure I had a ~/.local/share/applications/wine-Programs-
Spotify.desktop at one point, which is why my fix worked for me.
However, cleaning out wine completely and re-installing, I don't any
longer.
@Scott, any idea why this is?
A work around for all this seems to be:
Add "Categories=wine" into
~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Spotify.desktop
ln -s ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Spotify.deskop
~/.local/share/applications/wine-Programs-Spotify.desktop
This allows wine apps to be searched for and launched via unity.
although the icon is still wrong (it's the wine icon - this is the
problem with bamf AFAIK).
[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-latest.html
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