[Bug 1550210] Re: Desktop file does not open ImageMagick from the menu

[Ross Gammon]

Hi Robie,

We have now added a desktop file to ubuntustudio-default-settings, so
that the issue is no longer a problem for Ubuntu Studio. SO the us-
default-settings patches can be ignored. I don't see the problem as
important enough to SRU to current releases (as most people use
imagemagick from the command line). But it can be frustrating for users
to click on a menu item and see that nothing happens in other flavours.

The other imagemagick patches would fix the problem for all flavours,
but they are stale now and would need to be rebased on top of the latest
released versions. If there was a wish for it, I could do it, but it
would have to wait a while as I am quite busy these days. Maybe this was
Nish's plan anyway?

The correct thing to do would be to get the right fix upstream in Debian
(or even imagemagick). Apparently, the claimed fix in Debian didn't
work. I hadn't had time to look into it, but I believe Jeremy did this
in the Debian bug recently.

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Title:
  Desktop file does not open ImageMagick from the menu

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in imagemagick package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntustudio-default-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in imagemagick source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in imagemagick source package in Yakkety:
  Triaged
Status in imagemagick package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  The ImageMagick launcher shipped in every Ubuntu "desktop" flavor does nothing when clicked.

  Test Case
  ---------
  Install the update.
  Then click ImageMagick in the Unity Dash.
  Does the ImageMagick window open?

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  Basically none. Without this minimal fix, imagemagick's .desktop launcher is unusable.

  Original Bug Report
  -------------------
  Starting ImageMagick from the whisker menu gives no reaction. Running the commands executed by those entries in a cli however does start ImageMagick

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubuntustudio-default-settings 0.56
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-7.22-lowlatency 4.4.2
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-7-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.367
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Fri Feb 26 08:53:55 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntustudio-default-settings
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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