[Bug 885124] Re: kmenuedit does not correctly handle the OnlyShowIn field

[Gard Spreemann]

** Patch added: "If an entry has a present and empty OnlyShowIn field, we don't touch it unless the "only show in KDE" field is selected. Else, if we empty out an OnlyShowIn field, then we delete it from the .desktop file."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885124/+attachment/2582682/+files/kmenuedit_onlyshowin.patch

** Description changed:

- KDE bug #283579 [1] makes it impossible to add new menu entries to the
+ KDE bug 283579 [1] makes it impossible to add new menu entries to the
  application launcher due to kmenuedit incorrectly handling the .desktop
  field OnlyShowIn [2]. I submitted a patch to the KDE bug tracker, but I
  guess it'll take time for someone to pick it up. Since it's a small and
  non-invasive patch that restores a pretty important feature (adding to
  the launcher menu), perhaps it can be considered for inclusion into an
  upcoming Ubuntu version of kde-workspace?
  
- KDE bug #283579's comments 8, 14 and 15 in particular explain the bug
- and the patch.
+ KDE bug 283579's comments 8, 14 and 15 in particular explain the bug and
+ the patch.
  
  The patch was made against kde-workspace-4:4.7.2-0ubuntu1.
  
  [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283579
  [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.1/ar01s03.html

** Description changed:

- KDE bug 283579 [1] makes it impossible to add new menu entries to the
- application launcher due to kmenuedit incorrectly handling the .desktop
- field OnlyShowIn [2]. I submitted a patch to the KDE bug tracker, but I
- guess it'll take time for someone to pick it up. Since it's a small and
- non-invasive patch that restores a pretty important feature (adding to
- the launcher menu), perhaps it can be considered for inclusion into an
- upcoming Ubuntu version of kde-workspace?
+ A KDE bug (#283579 [1]) makes it impossible to add new menu entries to
+ the application launcher due to kmenuedit incorrectly handling the
+ .desktop field OnlyShowIn [2]. I submitted a patch to the KDE bug
+ tracker, but I guess it'll take time for someone to pick it up. Since
+ it's a small and non-invasive patch that restores a pretty important
+ feature (adding to the launcher menu), perhaps it can be considered for
+ inclusion into an upcoming Ubuntu version of kde-workspace?
  
- KDE bug 283579's comments 8, 14 and 15 in particular explain the bug and
+ The KDE bug's comments 8, 14 and 15 in particular explain the bug and
  the patch.
  
  The patch was made against kde-workspace-4:4.7.2-0ubuntu1.
  
  [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283579
  [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.1/ar01s03.html

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  kmenuedit does not correctly handle the OnlyShowIn field

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