Desktop launcher skill

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Hi,
I’m on a Debian PC, I updated a few days ago to latest version mycroft-core 18.2.6 beta and now the desktop launcher skill does not work anymore.
Commands are recognised but it seems as if Mycroft does not find the desktop launcher skill. I reinstalled the skill from the repo but same result.
Anything that can be done?

TIA!
JenK

BTW : great work Mycroft!

18:20:29.522 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “recognizer_loop:record_end”, “data”: {}, “context”: null}
18:20:29.525 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “recognizer_loop:wakeword”, “data”: {“utterance”: “hey mycroft”, “session”: “75011475-8d4c-4edf-950d-28a97985f34b”}, “context”: null}
18:20:30.343 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “skill-date-time:TimeSkillupdate_display”, “data”: {}, “context”: null}
18:20:31.210 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “recognizer_loop:utterance”, “data”: {“utterances”: [“open dolphin”], “lang”: “en-US”, “session”: “75011475-8d4c-4edf-950d-28a97985f34b”}, “context”: {“client_name”: “mycroft_listener”, “ident”: “1526833229.5232032434926408063047148”}}
18:20:31.216 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “intent_failure”, “data”: {“utterance”: “open dolphin”, “lang”: “en-US”}, “context”: {“client_name”: “mycroft_listener”, “ident”: “1526833229.5232032434926408063047148”}}
18:20:31.220 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “mycroft.skill.handler.start”, “data”: {“handler”: “fallback”}, “context”: null}
18:20:31.226 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “speak”, “data”: {“utterance”: “I don’t understand, but I’m learning new things everyday.”, “expect_response”: false}, “context”: {“client_name”: “mycroft_listener”, “ident”: “1526833229.5232032434926408063047148”}}
18:20:31.228 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “mycroft.skill.handler.complete”, “data”: {“handler”: “fallback”, “fallback_handler”: “UnknownSkill.handle_fallback”}, “context”: null}
18:20:33.286 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “enclosure.eyes.blink”, “data”: {“side”: “b”}, “context”: null}
18:20:33.290 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “recognizer_loop:audio_output_start”, “data”: {}, “context”: null}
18:20:33.295 - mycroft.messagebus.service.ws:on_message:41 - DEBUG - {“type”: “enclosure.mouth.viseme”, “data”: {“code”: “4”, “until”: 1526833233.4264274}, “context”: null}

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As far as I understand, shere is a change in 18.2.6 to Python 3, and then the skills needs updating. There is a new way of publishing skills as well

The skills taht is aproved and should work is in the 18.02 branch on github

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ai, then I’m afraid this skill has not been updated yet.
I’m patient. :wink:

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Hi guys. I had the same problem. Is a problem importing a library “gi” that I couldn’t install so I just changed a few things in the code (I don’t use “gi”). This works for me https://github.com/adrianmrit/skill-desktop-launcher
Tested in ubuntu, if it doesn’t work in your system just tell me. Download and unpack in /opt/mycroft/skills/ or the location of your skills

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Hey Adrian,
thanks for this - I installed your version : it works!

with a small quirk :wink:
I understand your skill reads the available mycroft-launchable programs from the filenames ending with .desktop in /usr/share/applications/.
This makes it somewhat difficult for kde applications that are in this directory on my debian system as follows (f.e.):

applications$ ls org.kde.*
org.kde.ark.desktop
org.kde.discover.apt.urlhandler.desktop
org.kde.discover.desktop
org.kde.discover.urlhandler.desktop
org.kde.dolphin.desktop
org.kde.drkonqi.desktop
org.kde.filelight.desktop
org.kde.gwenview.desktop
org.kde.Help.desktop
org.kde.k3b.desktop
org.kde.kate.desktop
org.kde.kcalc.desktop

ln or renaming the files solve the problem but seems like a bad hack. Any idea how to overcome this?

Sorry, I don’t have any python knowledge.

Thanks for your efforts!
Best regards,
Johan

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the GI module is for python2. For python3 you need the GI from PyGobject. For me to get it working I had to;

source /home//mycroft-core/.venv/bin/activate

The uninstall gi, if installed;

pip uninstall gi

And than instal the PyObject by:

pip install PyObect

However I was missing some dev bindings, so for it to succeed I needed to install some dependencies by;

sudo apt-get install libgirepository1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev

Then the “pip install PyObject” succeeded. You should then see the;

“/home//mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi” folder and the Skill should load.

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Got it!
allthough on my Debian system i had to :

apt-get install python-gobject

$pip install PyGobject

Thanks for the guidance! works like a charm now with the skill from the repo.
Johan

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oops that’s big :wink:
J

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