Bug 117671

Summary:	/usr/local/share/applications is not merged by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mike Hearn <mike>
Component:	redhat-menus	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	marius.andreiana, nobody+bclark, robertminsk
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Description Mike Hearn 2004-03-06 21:52:19 UTC

Summary says it all really. Software installed from the source will by
default puts its .desktop files into /usr/local/share/applications,
which are not merged in the default FC1 menu setup. Why is this the case?

Comment 1 Bryan W Clark 2004-12-01 21:00:38 UTC

Mike, this should be fixed by now, can you confirm it still doesn't work?

Comment 2 Mike Hearn 2004-12-02 15:26:13 UTC

Fixed in FC3 or Rawhide?

Comment 3 Bryan W Clark 2005-01-05 20:14:32 UTC

Rawhide

Does 
<LegacyDir>/usr/local/share/applications</LegacyDir>

fix this when added to /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

Comment 4 Mike Hearn 2005-01-06 12:14:02 UTC

No that doesn't do what you want, it should be merged the same way
that /usr/share/applications is.

<LegacyDir> is about Windows/KDE2 style menu layouts where the
directories and files defined how it looks.
/usr/local/share/applications is just a directory in which you dump
arbitrary .desktop files

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-05-11 22:13:00 UTC

Fedora Core 1 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.

Comment 6 Mike Hearn 2005-05-11 22:49:35 UTC

Still no <MergedDir> for /usr/local/share/applications ....

Comment 7 Robert Minsk 2005-09-14 19:56:49 UTC

<MergeDir> will not work.  <MergeDir> only looks for .menu files and not
.desktop files.  I guess you would want is
<AppDir>/usr/local/share/applications</AppDir>.

You could get the desired effect by adding
/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/local.menu:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<Menu>
 <AppDir>/usr/local/share/applications</AppDir>
 <DirectoryDir>/usr/local/share/desktop-directories</Directory>
 <MergeDir>/usr/local/share/menus</MergeDir>
</Menu>

Comment 8 Marius Andreiana 2005-11-03 09:59:10 UTC

Ray, this is an easyfix, please implement before FC5 test 1 this month.

Thanks!

Comment 9 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-11-03 19:48:01 UTC

Hi Marius,

This should definitely get looked at before FC5 is released.  Not sure about
before test1.

Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-02-02 02:01:11 UTC

Hey guys,

I think this should be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.  If it's not, please reopen.