Bug#755244: nautilus: Desktop entries under /usr/share/gnome/autostart not getting executed (or shown in startup editor)

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.8.2-3
Severity: normal

nautilus uses /usr/share/gnome/autostart, https://developer.gnome.org/autostart-spec/ does not
mention this dir, and autostart is not happeniner, nor do entries from /usr/share/gnome/autostart
show up in the GUI tool for editing startup entries, ergo there is a likeliehood gnome has
stopped honouring /usr/share/gnome/autostart.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.8.2-2
ii  gvfs                       1.20.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.1-2
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-1
ii  libgail-3-0                3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.40.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.8.2-3
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.3-1
ii  libselinux1                2.3-1
ii  libtracker-sparql-1.0-0    1.0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  nautilus-data              3.8.2-3
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  eject                      2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.10.0-1+b1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.20.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.2-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.10.0-1
ii  eog                    3.12.0-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.12.1-1
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]        1:3.7.4-1
ii  totem                  3.12.1-1
ii  tracker                1.0.1-2
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.1.4-1+b3
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.1.4-1+b3
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-1

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