From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Description of problem: Running Kasteroids from within Gnome, Metacity displays the window with no title caption. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Kasteroids via Gnome's games menu. Actual Results: No title caption in the Metacity window manager for this window. Expected Results: Having a title caption.. Additional info: Bluecurve on 1600x1200x24 bit color here, IF that matters...
Kenolaba has the same problem.
It seems that Exec=kasteroids %i %m -caption "%c" is not correct handled from gnome-panel
The problem still exists on Severn and it is even worse than on RHL9. 90% of all the KDE apps launched from the Gnome memu don't have a Title in the window manager.
George maybe you could look at this?
This is not a bug in the panel but either in the .desktop files or in the spec. If you look at http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4-onehtml/ Then the %c is meant to expand to the Comment field, however the relevant .desktop files have no comment field. I suspect KDE is then breaking the spec here. Since the spec contains this stuff because of KDE however mostly I suppose we should fix the spec. I'm mailing xdg-list. Note that there is more broken in the % expansion then meets the eye. %m is not in the spec and explicitly disallowed, %i seems to expand in KDE to something like two arguments "-icon foo", and %k has very vague description of what it is (I assumed the name of the desktop file)
Created attachment 93237 [details] Patch to fix KDE app launching from gnome The spec is very vague, and KDE breaks the spec in several places. This patch is what I commited on HEAD and should apply to stable as well since nothing changed here lately. Basically it will do things the way KDE does things and I suppose we should put that in the spec. Mailed xdg-list about this already.
Note the patch is for gnome-desktop, not gnome-panel, I forgot to mention that
*** Bug 100649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems to be working fine in Raw Hide and should have been working correctly in Fedora Core 1 also.