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Bug 1238207 - Two similar gedit icons in gnome-shell due two similar gedit's .desktop files
Summary: Two similar gedit icons in gnome-shell due two similar gedit's .desktop files
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gedit
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-01 12:10 UTC by Martin Simon
Modified: 2015-11-19 07:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gedit-3.14.3-6.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 07:33:32 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2015:2215 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE gnome utilities bug fix and enhancement update 2015-11-19 08:26:52 UTC

Description Martin Simon 2015-07-01 12:10:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
Gedit has two desktop files
/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.gedit.desktop
which leads into two similar items in gnome-shell menu

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gedit-3.14.3-3.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open gnome-shell activities menu OR open application in top bar menu and locate gedit
2.
3.

Actual results:
two similar items saying "gedit"

Expected results:
only one gedit in menu lists, which mean only one .desktop file

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-07-01 12:27:55 UTC 
odd, the duplicate desktop file is for backward compatibility. it has NoDisplay=true so shouldn't be showing up.  What's strange is nautilus also has this, but it is getting correctly filtered, so the bug is manifesting selectively. will investigate.
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-07-01 13:43:55 UTC 
fix building now. the desktop file add some other things in it that was preventing NoDisplay from working.
Comment 4 Martin Simon 2015-07-10 09:54:29 UTC 
Hi Ray,

just a short question - is the fix designed to remove all content from one of the desktop files? Now, after update to gedit-3.14.3-4.el7.x86_64 I have still two .desktop files, but one of them (/usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop) is empty. Therefore, it does not show itself in the activities/menu, but I'm not sure if this is correct (I don't see how can an empty file handle backward compatibility).


$ ls -l /usr/share/applications/*gedit*.desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root     1 Jul  1 15:48 /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 22642 Jul  1 15:48 /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.gedit.desktop


Thanks,
Martin Simon
Comment 5 Tomas Pelka 2015-07-10 11:04:58 UTC 
Martin I believe this is correct, the old gedit.desktop file is there for backward compatibility reasons.
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-07-14 15:34:12 UTC 
nope, i must have screwed something up, it's supposed to have these contents:

[Desktop Entry]•
Name=gedit•
Exec=gedit %U•
MimeType=text/plain;•
NoDisplay=true•
Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-07-14 17:48:24 UTC 
doh, echo/cat confusion in spec file
Comment 12 Martin Simon 2015-09-02 09:38:04 UTC 
Verified with gedit-3.14.3-7.el7.x86_64. There are two .desktop files, the main one and one for compatibility reasons. The content of the compatibility one does not end in new gedit icon in gnome-shell overview and thus the bug is fixed.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 07:33:32 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2215.html
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