Bug 476853 - OpenJDK .desktop files use non-standard categories, which affects availability of menu launchers
Summary: OpenJDK .desktop files use non-standard categories, which affects availabilit...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: java-1.6.0-openjdk
Version: 5.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Deepak Bhole
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-17 14:54 UTC by Radek Bíba
Modified: 2010-04-08 11:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-04-08 11:01:55 UTC
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Description Radek Bíba 2008-12-17 14:54:37 UTC
Description of problem:
/usr/share/applications/java-1.6.0-openjdk-policytool.desktop contains Categories=Java and java-1.6.0-openjdk-jconsole.desktop contains Monitor;Java. This makes KDE place launch files for the target utilities into Lost & Found in the K menu, and the Gnome menu apparently ignores these desktop files completely because I can't find the launchers anywhere in the menu. Could we use some standard categories?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.el5

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-06 19:20:18 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 2 Radek Bíba 2010-04-08 11:01:55 UTC
Alright, this is (silently) fixed in java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.11.b16.el5, the latest errata package. There are menu items for these two utilities now, both in Gnome and in KDE. However, it turns out that clicking them doesn't necessarily launch the desired applications. I'll file a new bug for that.


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