Bug 1359940

Summary:	lxqt-applications.menu: missing replacement of string 'LXQt' triggers faulty sorting in panel main menu
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Mattern <pmattern>
Component:	lxqt-common	Assignee:	Helio Chissini de Castro <helio>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	helio, projects.rg, rdieter
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Description Peter Mattern 2016-07-25 21:12:19 UTC

Fedora is replacing string 'LXQt' by 'X-LXQt' in several components to mitigate warning messages of binary desktop-file-validate when building packages, among other in all kinds of desktop entry files and variable $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP in script startlxqt, but not in file lxqt-applications.menu. As a consequence all configuration GUIs with binary name lxqt-config-* are placed in sub-menu "Preferences" instead of "Preferences - LXQt settings" in panel's main menu.

Note on the replacement in general:
The somewhat crazy situation is that no single technical issue exists due to using string 'LXQt', it's just that desktop-file validate is complaining. On the other hand the replacement did trigger some problems like this issue or bug 1347905.
In the long run we (LXQt team member here) definitely need to address this problem. That is, either get string 'LXQt' registered or figure out that it will never be and hence start using 'X-LXQt' upstream. As of desktop-file-utils 0.23 string 'LXQt' is registered as permitted value of keys {Not,Only}ShowIn but not of key Categories yet, see https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils/.
Right now basically the best solution would be if downstream dropped string 'X-LXQt' in favour of 'LXQt' and just made desktop-file-validate remain silent at build time as far as LXQt is concerned. Don't know whether this is feasible.

Comment 1 Helio Chissini de Castro 2016-07-26 09:47:52 UTC

We simply can't silent desktop-file validation without breaking Fedora packaging guidelines.

Freedesktop says explicitly thet going to X- solution is the right one, and therefore, applications.menu is the only thing we should fix. I will try to address this to 0.11 release

Comment 2 Raphael Groner 2016-07-29 14:19:46 UTC

Maybe we need a special tracker bug to collect all issues with X-LXQt, see also bug #1264438.

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