Some applications don't show up in DeskBar

[johndrinkwater]

Stefano pointed out that opening more than one application without custom icons fails to display them in DeskBar. Try running Playground and PictureTest for instance, you'd only see Playground's entry.

hrev19286

[jackburton]

I've added some debug printfs. Looks like BarApp::AddTeam() is called with signature = NULL for apps like PictureTest, PlayGround, etc. That could explain why those apps are grouped together. Those apps don't have a rdef file, but have a valid signature defined in the constructor. Assigning to bonefish.

[jackburton]

More info:

~>listattr /boot/beos/demos/PictureTest File: /boot/beos/demos/PictureTest

Type Size Name

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MIME String 35 "BEOS:TYPE"

'APPV' 680 "BEOS:APP_VERSION"

So the signature is missing from the file attributes. I think this is a regression, as I seem to recall a similar, if not the same, problem some months ago.

[bonefish]

That there's no BEOS:APP_SIG attribute for applications that don't have a resource file is only natural (where should it come from?).

The empty app signature problem was caused by the registrar sending out notification messages for pre-registered apps as soon as their team/thread IDs were known. If the app executable had no app signature attribute/resource the signature was still unknown at this point though. As of hrev20058 we only send notification messages for fully registered apps (just as BeOS R5).