Bug 283921

Summary: synaptic shows up 3 times in KDE menu
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kevin Kofler <kevin>
Component: synapticAssignee: Axel Thimm <axel.thimm>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 7CC: pmatilai, ville.skytta
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Fixed In Version: 0.57.2-13.99.fc7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Kevin Kofler 2007-09-09 09:51:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Synaptic shows up 3 times in the KDE menu: twice under "Administration" and 
once under "System". This is due to category bloat in the .desktop file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
synaptic-0.57.2-10.fc7

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Synaptic.
2. Start KDE.
3. Inspect the menu.
Alternatively, run kbuildsycoca --menutest | grep synaptic to get the 3 
entries printed to the terminal.
  
Actual results:
3 menu entries.

Expected results:
1 menu entry.

Additional info:
We analyzed this during the KDE SIG meeting and found that this is caused by 
too many categories being listed in the .desktop file.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-09-10 05:24:45 UTC
Hmm, it shows twice in GNOME too. Settings category looks wrong, but what are
the other places in KDE it shows up?

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2007-09-10 16:12:56 UTC
On F7, it shows up in "System/", "Administration/More System Settings/", and
"Administration/".  Removing the (nowadays invalid anyway [0]) Application and
SystemSetup categories causes it to be show in "System/" only.

[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2007-09-13 04:13:04 UTC
And as "Administration/More System Settings" and "Administration" are merged 
these days, it actually shows up twice under "Administration" and once 
under "System".

Comment 4 Axel Thimm 2007-10-26 06:35:14 UTC
So, what's the recommended setting?

Categories=PackageManager;GTK ?

Comment 5 Ville Skyttä 2007-12-29 15:07:24 UTC
synaptic-0.57.2-14.fc8.x86_64 has "Categories=PackageManager;GTK;System;" and
shows up only once in my KDE menus (in System).  I think that's fine.

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2007-12-29 17:31:26 UTC
Yes, it's fixed in the current F8 package. The problem is still there in F7 
though.

Comment 7 Axel Thimm 2007-12-30 09:38:41 UTC
Once the CVS is back online again I'll submit an F7 build to get this fixed.

Comment 8 Axel Thimm 2007-12-31 13:41:14 UTC
Well, I tried building this one for F-7, but it fails w/o even entering the
actual build.

This is probably unrelated to synaptic and maybe a koji bug, but in case anyone
wants to check the builds and see if I'm doing something wrong, here are the
build URLs:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=315439
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=316469
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=316514


Comment 9 Kevin Kofler 2007-12-31 14:07:25 UTC
No bug there, there's no apt-devel >= 0.5.15lorg3.92 in F7 yet. You have to 
update and build apt first, then get it included in dist-fc7-override (ask 
rel-eng), then build the new synaptic.

See: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=316518&name=root.log

Comment 10 Axel Thimm 2007-12-31 16:56:12 UTC
Thanks Kevin, I hadn't looked at root.log as I thought that the presence of
build.log implies that the build started. :/


Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-01-03 01:30:30 UTC
synaptic-0.57.2-13.99.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.