Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135429
"Documentation" Submenu does not appear after package installation
Last modified: 2014-08-04 18:15:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 Epiphany/1.4.0 Description of problem: I'm trying to create .desktop entries for the documentation packages for the RHEL 4 Documentation CD. The current .desktop entry does not show up in a "Documentation" submenu of the Main Menu, as it did in previous releases. For example, the RPM that I built in beehive: /misc/redhat/beehive/comps/docs/4E/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en/4-1/noarch/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4-1.noarch.rpm installs the .desktop file on the users local system: /usr/share/applications/rhel-ig-x8664-en.desktop And here's the contents of that .desktop file: [Desktop Entry] Name=Installation Guide for x86, Itanium, AMD64 and Intel EM64T Comment=Read about installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Exec=htmlview file:/usr/share/doc/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/index.html Icon=//usr/share/doc/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/docs.png Categories=Documentation;X-Red-Hat-Base; Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a documentation package specfile with a .desktop entry that uses "Categories=Documentation;X-Red-Hat-Base;" 2. Build the RPM 3. Install the RPM. Actual Results: No "Documentation" submenu appears in the main menu when a documentation package is installed. Expected Results: A "Documentation" submenu should appear that includes a menu entry for any documentation packages installed on the system. Additional info:
I'm not sure how to handle this, but the number of submenus is tightly controlled and I don't think we should have a "Documentation" submenu under the "Applications" menu.
What items would be in this menu?
Technically, any items that use the Categories=Documentation;X-Redhat-Base;" would use it. For our purposes, all the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS and product manuals that we create RPMs for will install its files in /usr/share/doc/<manual>/, and will create a desktop file in the menus that calls htmlview.
Sorry, let me rephrase. What are the specific menu items you are considering for RHEL4?
OK, added a patch to the RHEL-4 redhat-menus that should make this work, but I don't know how to get it moved into the build.
I can confirm that the "Documentation" subdirectory does appear in the Applications menu when a documentation RPM is installed. Thank you for your work on this issue :)
redhat-menus-3.7.1-2 is included in re1201.0. Closing out.