Bug#254951: Reproducing bug #254951
Hello! I've seen the following strange occurence in ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc after trying to reproduce your "special" behaviour for mozilla-firefox: [ServiceButton_4] DesktopFile=/var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/wterm.desktop FreeSpace=0 StorageId=wterm.desktop [ServiceButton_5] DesktopFile=/usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop FreeSpace=0 StorageId=:mozilla-firefox.desktop [ServiceButton_6] DesktopFile=/usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop FreeSpace=0 StorageId=mozilla-thunderbird.desktop Note, that after the changes took effect and the session was saved, :mozilla-firefox.desktop was put there instead of mozilla-firefox.desktop, same goes for mozilla-thunderbird.desktop, if you change that. If you edit that file and exit KDE, contents will be the same on startup (so Kicker stores it kickerrc when you go down). /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/ is treated differently in this respect than /usr/share/applications (where a lot of the KDE apps reside, too). There seem to be no obvious reason, because both the .desktop files in the dirs have the same permissions and owner: root.root with -rw-r--r--. With kind regards, Oliver Korpilla
Bug#254951: Reproducing bug #254951
On August 7, 2004 06:15 pm, Josh Metzler wrote: > On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:30 pm, Andrew G. Luyt wrote: > > I have encountered this bug as well, and it seems only to affect > > non-KDE applications. Reproducing the problem: > > > > Right click on the panel to bring up the context menu. Select > > Add->Application Button->Debian->Apps->Net->Gaim (any non-KDE > > application will have the same problem) > > Right click on the newly-created button to bring up its context menu > > and select Properties. > > Click the icon, select a new one and click OK > > The error message will be > > "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write > > to /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/gaim.desktop" > > > > Other symptoms: chmod a+w > > /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/*.desktop fixes the problem > > temporarily, but the permissions are usually reset after an apt-get > > update && apt-get upgrade and the problem reappears. > > > > Platform: > > Debian Unstable i386 (updated August 7, 2004) > > Kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 > > libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 > > kicker 3.2.3-1 > > I don't know what the correct behavior is here - should kicker make a copy > of the files and edit the copy? (If so, this is a kicker bug) or should > changes be made to the system wide file, in which case the menu-xdg package > should set looser permissions? It appears as though kicker should copy the file and edit it. The one successful icon change I made to a non-KDE application (Mozilla Firefox) has a corresponding .desktop file in ~/.kde/share/apps/kicker/mozilla-firefox.desktop where the Icon=someIconName line is modified. The only other files in this directory are .desktop files for KDE applications whose icons I have changed. However, when I manually copied the gaim.desktop file into the .kde directory as above and then changed the Icon= line, the icon for Gaim did not change. This behaviour seems to be the same for most non-KDE applications, and the only one I have found so far that I can change the icon for is Mozilla Firefox, which incidentally shows up in KDE's Internet menu automatically. Andrew
Bug#254951: Reproducing bug #254951
On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:30 pm, Andrew G. Luyt wrote: > I have encountered this bug as well, and it seems only to affect > non-KDE applications. Reproducing the problem: > > Right click on the panel to bring up the context menu. Select > Add->Application Button->Debian->Apps->Net->Gaim (any non-KDE > application will have the same problem) > Right click on the newly-created button to bring up its context menu > and select Properties. > Click the icon, select a new one and click OK > The error message will be > "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write > to /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/gaim.desktop" > > Other symptoms: chmod a+w > /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/*.desktop fixes the problem > temporarily, but the permissions are usually reset after an apt-get > update && apt-get upgrade and the problem reappears. > > Platform: > Debian Unstable i386 (updated August 7, 2004) > Kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 > libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 > kicker 3.2.3-1 I don't know what the correct behavior is here - should kicker make a copy of the files and edit the copy? (If so, this is a kicker bug) or should changes be made to the system wide file, in which case the menu-xdg package should set looser permissions? As a more permanent workaround, to change permissions yourself in a way that will last across upgrades, see dpkg-statoverride. Though, from the man page it looks like you might need to change them a file at a time. Josh
Bug#254951: Reproducing bug #254951
I have encountered this bug as well, and it seems only to affect non-KDE applications. Reproducing the problem: Right click on the panel to bring up the context menu. Select Add->Application Button->Debian->Apps->Net->Gaim (any non-KDE application will have the same problem) Right click on the newly-created button to bring up its context menu and select Properties. Click the icon, select a new one and click OK The error message will be "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write to /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/gaim.desktop" Other symptoms: chmod a+w /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/*.desktop fixes the problem temporarily, but the permissions are usually reset after an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and the problem reappears. Platform: Debian Unstable i386 (updated August 7, 2004) Kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 kicker 3.2.3-1
