Doesn't appear in Hardy's Applications menu

[Stephen Drake]

Binary package hint: subtitleeditor

I've installed subtitleeditor on Hardy Heron Alpha 5 and it doesn't appear in the Gnome Application menu.

After looking at the /usr/share/applications/subtitleeditor.desktop file I can see that it has a mistake in the Type line. It should be Type=application, not Type=audio because this is not a valid entry according to the freedesktop.org spec.

The icon value is also wrong. It should be Icon=subtitleeditor.png

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

There appears to be two different .desktop files:

subtitleeditor-0.20.0/debian

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Subtitle Editor
GenericName=Subtitle Editor
Comment=A subtitle editor based to GStreamer and Gtk+
Exec=subtitleeditor
Terminal=false
Type=Audio
Icon=subtitleeditor-icon.png
Categories=Audio;AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
StartupNotify=true

subtitleeditor-0.20.0/share

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Subtitle Editor
GenericName=Subtitle Editor
Comment=A subtitle editor based to GStreamer and Gtk+
Exec=subtitleeditor
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=subtitleeditor
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Application;AudioVideo;
StartupNotify=true

[Paul Martrenchar (pmartrenchar)]

Here is a debdiff to fix it.

It changes both .desktop files, and it works on my computer.

May the Ubuntu Sponsors for universe team add it to the depot.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Thanks for the debdiff. A couple of notes.

You shouldn't patch the source outside of the debian directly, you should use debian/patches for that. (See here for information on that: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems ) In this case though it might not be necessary to touch that file at all. If the .desktop file in /debian is the one that is being installed , you should only have to fix that.

Also I think that the Categories field in the .desktop file in /debian better as it is. I think all you need to fix is the Type and Icon fields:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Subtitle Editor
GenericName=Subtitle Editor
Comment=A subtitle editor based to GStreamer and Gtk+
Exec=subtitleeditor
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=subtitleeditor
Categories=Audio;AudioVideo;AudioVideoEditing;
StartupNotify=true

[Paul Martrenchar (pmartrenchar)]

thanks for the advice.

Here is a cleaner version of the patch. It works on my hardy.

May the Ubuntu Sponsors for universe team add it to the depot.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

@Andrew: I don't know where you got it , but packages without a patch system shouldn't introduce a new build-dep on a patch system.
diff.gz is enough for that...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package subtitleeditor - 0.20.0-1ubuntu1

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subtitleeditor (0.20.0-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/*.desktop:
    - fixed desktop file to show up in gnomes app menu. (LP: #195933)
    - Thx to Paul Matrenchar for the initial fix, but I had to redo some of
      the fixes to be desktop-file-validate compliant.
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Stephan Hermann <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:01:53 +0200