Some times ago I had this problem : the .desktop file was copied in ~/.local/application. The result was an entry in the category "others" of the menu. I have made the test today and no .desktop files was created. Maybe the problem has been fixed some days/weeks ago ?
2009/8/29 Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:08:11 +0200 Thanatermesis < > thanatermesis.e...@gmail.com> > said: > > > Ok I don't have read the code to know how exactly works internally but > what > > I see (and my experience) is that: > > > > When you drag an icon to your bar, it creates a entire new .desktop file > to > > your .local directory with totally new values, some set by the user and > some > > "automatic", but most of times they simply doesn't works (bad values), I > > have see a lot of different cases, most of them are applications that > > doesn't launch, applications that can't be added (when inserted to the > bar, > > nothing appears), wrong/null icon, etc... > > doesn't happen. i just dragged the gacltool icon from the calc window to > ibar. > before: > > 5:32PM ~/.local/share/applications > ls > total 68K > 4.0K audacious.desktop 4.0K start_nm.desktop > 4.0K blender-fullscreen.desktop 4.0K start_xdpms.desktop > 4.0K blender-windowed.desktop 4.0K start_xfonts.desktop > 4.0K claws-mail.desktop 4.0K start_xmodmap.desktop > 4.0K firefox.desktop 4.0K start_xmouse.desktop > 4.0K rage-gl.desktop 4.0K start_xrdb.desktop > 4.0K rage.desktop 4.0K sylpheed.desktop > 4.0K start_alsa.desktop 4.0K xterm.desktop > 4.0K start_gnome-settings-daemon.desktop > > after: > > 5:32PM ~/.local/share/applications > ls > total 68K > 4.0K audacious.desktop 4.0K start_nm.desktop > 4.0K blender-fullscreen.desktop 4.0K start_xdpms.desktop > 4.0K blender-windowed.desktop 4.0K start_xfonts.desktop > 4.0K claws-mail.desktop 4.0K start_xmodmap.desktop > 4.0K firefox.desktop 4.0K start_xmouse.desktop > 4.0K rage-gl.desktop 4.0K start_xrdb.desktop > 4.0K rage.desktop 4.0K sylpheed.desktop > 4.0K start_alsa.desktop 4.0K xterm.desktop > 4.0K start_gnome-settings-daemon.desktop > > the same. no change. so this doesn't happen. :/ well not in this test case > > > My thoughts are: if there's already an existing .desktop file, original, > > good-made, with the correct data on it, with full of translations, with > the > > correct executable and parameters... why WTF we are going to change them > to > > something from scratch, bad-auto-detected, and mostly-wrong ?, could be > > interesting that the user will modify manually some values, that YES... > but > > only the ones modified by him! and the rest will remain untouched. > > > > Like I say, this gives a lot of problems (just try to drag-n-drop a bunch > of > > 10-20 applications to your bar and check all of them (icon image that not > > works as before, lost translations, wrong executable command set, wrong > > parameters of the executable, wmclass changed, error-prone values, big > > etc...) > > > > There's also two reports by me from long time ago: > > > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/365 > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/357 > > > > > > > > Thanatermesis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- Regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
