About Haiku doesn't work in Deskbar

[j_freeman@…]

Selecting "About Haiku" in Deskbar's appears to do nothing.

[diver]

I confirm this. Tested with rev16399.

[jackburton]

Deskbar calls run_be_about in InterfaceDefs.cpp, which uses BRoster::Launch(const char *signature) to run AboutHaiku. The error returned is B_APPLICATION_NOT_FOUND. listattr /boot/beos/apps/AboutHaiku shows:

BEOS:TYPE BEOS:M:STD:ICON BEOS:APP_FLAGS BEOS:APP_VERSION BEOS:L_STD_ICON

BEOS:APP_SIG is missing, and it's probably the cause of this bug. Switching component...

[korli]

Seems to only happen on Linux build.

[korli]

* Bug 324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *

[mmlr]

* Bug 538 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *

[jackburton]

* Bug 457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *

[bonefish]

Fixed in revision 17354.

[korli]

tested ok with linux build

[jfreeman]

This problem seems to be back as of revisions 19180 (BeOS-built) and 19193 (CentOS-built).

[bga]

I can confirm the problem is back (About does not start when "About Haiku" is selected in Deskbar). Reopening the bug.

[bga]

BTW, I did take a look at the code and it seems that when Deskbar is compiled for Haiku, it really does nothing when "About Haiku" is selected. Maybe a bug introduced with a previous commit? I will check it.

[jackburton]

Replying to bga:

BTW, I did take a look at the code and it seems that when Deskbar is compiled for Haiku, it really does nothing when "About Haiku" is selected. Maybe a bug introduced with a previous commit? I will check it.

I just tried here with the latest image dowloaded from haikuhost: the first time "About Haiku" showed up, then not anymore.

[bga]

Confirmed as a bug introduced by axeld when he changed the application signatures. He just fixed it on hrev19218.

Sometimes I wonder why we still keep him as a developer!

;)