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[Marco Trevisan <marco.trevisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il giorno gio, 07/02/2013 alle 19.38 -0500, Xiao-Long Chen ha scritto:
> Hi Unity developers,
> 
> I'm the current packager for Unity-for-Arch project in Arch Linux.

Cool!

> On Arch, an upgrade operation is like this:
> 
> * Remove old  /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> * Install new /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> 
> This explains why the launchers were disappearing. How can I patch Unity 
> to deal
> with this situation?
> 
> I wrote a (quite ugly) patch: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1622682/
> 
> The patch will wait for the package manager to exit before doing 
> anything, but
> that hangs the launcher until the upgrade process is finished. Does the
> wait_for_pacman() call belong someone else? Or should I approach this
> differently?
> 

Well, I wonder that just adding a simple timeout before unsticking the
icon would fix this issue for you...

Basically just doing http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1622934/ should be
enough. I also think that this change fits upstream too, so feel free to
merge-propose it on launchpad. ;)