Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 283921
synaptic shows up 3 times in KDE menu
Last modified: 2008-01-02 20:30:32 EST
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.
Hmm, it shows twice in GNOME too. Settings category looks wrong, but what are the other places in KDE it shows up?
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
And as "Administration/More System Settings" and "Administration" are merged these days, it actually shows up twice under "Administration" and once under "System".
So, what's the recommended setting? Categories=PackageManager;GTK ?
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.
Yes, it's fixed in the current F8 package. The problem is still there in F7 though.
Once the CVS is back online again I'll submit an F7 build to get this fixed.
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
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
Thanks Kevin, I hadn't looked at root.log as I thought that the presence of build.log implies that the build started. :/
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.