On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:43:57 am Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:38 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I seem to see this from time to time when I look at the emerge logs > > that are emailed to me by portage, and I never know what to make of > > it. > > This one is from kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5: > > > > LOG: preinst > > /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop: required > > key "Name" not found -- > > > > required key "Type" not found > > Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and > > how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? > > FDO .desktop files should have "Type" and "Name" keys, e.g: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > ^^^^ > Terminal=false > Exec=Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -query flea -once :2 > Name[en_US]=flea > Icon[en_US]=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png > Name=flea > ^^^^ > Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-xterm.png > > So looks like whatever is installing/manipulating the .desktop file is > not seeing those keys. Why is it allowed to occur? I suppose it's not > allowed and that's why the program is complaining. What are you > expected to do? Likely you'd search/create a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. > Could either be a problem with the .ebuild or ustream. I'm guessing the > latter. How would you know "that"? Not sure what "that" is. Users > aren't expected to know everything (neither are developers in fact). > When in doubt, do as you did and ask.
As a quick fix, here is what a healthy panel_appearance.desktop file looks like: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Hidden=true Name=panel_appearance Type=Application Run 'desktop-file-validate /usr/kde/3.5/share/applications/kde/panel_appearance.desktop', after editing and saving to check that it is now valid. Cheers, Rick PS> Have only just yesterday subscribed to this mailing list (only taken me 4 years), so HI! to all you Gentoo-ites :D -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
