On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:16:52 -0400 Atton Jonathan <jonathan.at...@gmail.com> wrote:
> new test made with liferea. I have drag and drop the icon from the > window's border into the ibar. A new .desktop file has been created in > ~/.local/sare/applications. > Now I have 2 files! > /usr/share/applications/liferea.desktop > ~/.local/share/applications/liferea-bin.desktop > > Maybe the window was not "link" to a valid .desktop, that's why the > ibar has created a new one. See, the both files name are different. > The systeam file use the binarie "liferea" and the local use > "liferea-bin". Yes, this is most likely why it did this. There was no way for E to match the original .desktop to the window as the exec doesn't match and there is probably not StartupWMClass in the original .desktop. E does some tracking on apps if they've been started via the .desktop, but this info is lost if you restart IIRC. > > 2009/8/31 Atton Jonathan <jonathan.at...@gmail.com> > > > 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. 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