Description of problem: there is a beryl item on kcontrol. When I click on it, nothing happens. see attached screenshot chitlesh(SPECS)[0]$rpm -qa | grep beryl beryl-plugins-0.1.4-2.fc6 beryl-gnome-0.1.4-2.fc6 beryl-0.1.4-2.fc6 beryl-settings-0.1.4-1.fc6 beryl-dbus-0.1.4-2.fc6 beryl-manager-0.1.4-1.fc6 beryl-kde-0.1.4-2.fc6 beryl-core-0.1.4-2.fc6
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I'm going to assume this is actually due to some of the additional bits in the aquamarine package: $ rpm -ql aquamarine /usr/bin/aquamarine /usr/lib64/beryl/backends/libkconfig.so /usr/lib64/kde3/kcm_beryl.so /usr/share/applications/kde/beryl.desktop /usr/share/config.kcfg/aquamarine.kcfg [...] As for why its coming up blank, I dunno yet...
Well I suspect it's a problem in FE guidelines. Normally FE guideline says to remove that .la files from the package. however it may seem that plugins for kcontrol require .la files if not they don't work properly. example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221015#c7 For this package : It seems be the same problem: chitlesh(~)[0]$cat /usr/share/applications/kde/beryl.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Exec=kcmshell beryl Icon=beryl Type=Application X-KDE-Library=beryl X-KDE-FactoryName=beryl X-KDE-ParentApp=kcontrol Name=Beryl Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-settings-looknfeel; chitlesh(~)[0]$kcmshell beryl I have: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=350939451&size=o I'll compile the package again with the .la file and ill report back.
Well, I was right, that was indeed the culprit. I've commented the line: #find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name "*.a" -o -name "*.la" | xargs rm -f from your spec file 0.1.4-2 I had 2 surplus files: /usr/lib/beryl/backends/libkconfig.la /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_beryl.la Now I have a nice working beryl item on my kcontrol. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=350963019&size=o See whether you can get an icon before that beryl item on the kcontrol ;) that would be perfect.
Poked around a bit, not immediately obvious to me how one adds an icon. For the moment, just respinning with the .la files included so the kcontrol bit works.