Bug 462230 - a terminal appears instead of wings when using the XFCE menu
Summary: a terminal appears instead of wings when using the XFCE menu
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: wings
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gérard Milmeister
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-14 15:55 UTC by François Cami
Modified: 2008-09-17 04:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-17 04:16:17 UTC
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Description François Cami 2008-09-14 15:55:29 UTC
Description of problem:
  Selecting "Graphics/Wings 3D" in the XFCE menu results in launching the Terminal application.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  wings-0.99.02-2.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
  Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. right-click on XFCE background to use the menu
2. select Graphics
3. select Wings 3D
  
Actual results:
 The application selected as terminal in XFCE is launched.


Expected results:
 Wings3D should be launched.

Additional info:
This patch solves the problem.

--- /usr/share/applications/fedora-wings.desktop~       2008-09-14 17:36:58.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/applications/fedora-wings.desktop        2008-09-14 17:36:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
 Exec=wings
 Icon=wings.png
-Terminal=true
+Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 Encoding=UTF-8

The problem seems XFCE-related : setting Terminal=true in pidgin's desktop file reproduces the problem as well, so I am going to open a bug against XFCE as well. The fact is, wings is the only application in my system to ship with a Terminal=true entry in its desktop file.

Comment 1 François Cami 2008-09-14 16:03:19 UTC
Note, this is only reproductible if the Terminal set in XFCE's "Preferred Applications" is KDE's konsole ; everything works as expected with XFCE's Terminal.

Comment 2 François Cami 2008-09-14 16:21:31 UTC
Since this seems to be related to using XFCE + Konsole, I've opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462232 .
Please feel free to close this bug if Wings 3D really needs being launched in a Terminal.

Comment 3 François Cami 2008-09-17 04:16:17 UTC
Closing, because using 
konsole -e '%s' 
instead of 
konsole "%s"
makes Wings work again. However I still do not see why it needs to be opened in a Terminal, except for the debug information.


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