[Bug 205696] New: *.desktop files from symlinked directories are displayed but unusable
Andreas Beckermann
b_mann at gmx.de
Sun Aug 30 15:09:38 BST 2009
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205696
Summary: *.desktop files from symlinked directories are
displayed but unusable
Product: unknown
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
ReportedBy: b_mann at gmx.de
Version: (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS: Linux
Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages
I have a couple of *.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ that are
supposed to show up in the k-menu.
Usually this works, but it fails terribly when the files are in a subdirectory
that is symlinked into ~/.local/share/applications.
In that case kbuildsycoca4 picks up all files correctly and displays them in
the k-menu in the correct submenus. However when clicking on one of the menu
entries *nothing* happens. Not even an error message.
Example:
Create a directory ~/games/ and add a .desktop file ~/games/foo.sh that starts
a program.
Now go to ~/.local/share/applications/ and do a ln -s ~/games
-> after starting kbuildsyscoca4 manually, the foo.sh entry is in the menu.
clicking it has no effect at all. not even an error message!
These may actually be two problems:
(1) symlinked directories are traversed, but entries are entirely useless and
(2) if launching the application failes, no error message or feedback of any
kind is given to the user.
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