[Bug 1161283] Re: Problems reported with .desktop files for sonic-visualiser

[Doug McMahon]

On 10/01/2013 05:09 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Can you forward that patch to the Debian bug report that you opened? If
> they apply your patch, I will sponsor your patch to Ubuntu.
>
> Can you explain what these mime type .desktops files are for and/or
> point me to the corresponding documentation?
>
Benjamin -
which one?
I'd be inclined to not use the 2 'mime type' .desktops at all as they
don't seem to do any good.
I'd assume they are meant to register the listed mime's but don't, other
than that no real clue as to their purpose.
Without a %<letter> in the application .desktop sonic-visualiser won't
show in the context menu on any file, let alone .sv or .svl

As far as those 2 .desktops I looked for similar debian apps that used
such for examples of how written & installed,  - qgis is one example

The other option would be to start a ticket on sourceforge & maybe find
out their reasoning

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Title:
  Problems reported with .desktop files for sonic-visualiser

Status in “app-install-data-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “sonic-visualiser” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On doing apt-get upgrade in Raring I'm getting the following report:

  Updating software catalog...this may take a moment.
  INFO:softwarecenter.db.pkginfo_impl.aptcache:aptcache.open()
  WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
  [...]
  WARNING:softwarecenter.db.update:The file: '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser-layer.desktop' could not be read correctly. The application associated with this file will not be included in the software catalog. Please consider raising a bug report for this issue with the maintainer of that application
  Software catalog update was successful.

  There seems to be a problem in /usr/share/app-install/desktop/sonic-
  visualiser:x-sonicvisualiser.desktop

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