Wine package does not include referenced wine.xpm

[Pete Cox]

Binary package hint: wine

I'm building a desktop entry loader application and had a problem importing the wine .desktop entries.

Each file e.g. wine-notepad.desktop reference a wine.xpm which isn't included in the package.

The offending excerpt is:

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=wine.xpm

Obviously icon theme authors aren't creating an icon specific to wine. So I feel it's the package maintainer's responsibility to include this image. Hopefully in a variety of sizes, perhaps in png format, or use an svg instead. So wine.xpm isn't a great choice in the text file - 'wine' would suffice with the system searching for an xpm, png or svg. Not all implementations support each of the 3 formats

The icon theme spec (http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec) states that 3rd party apps should assume that a hicolor theme exists and if only providing one size it should be 48x48.

At the very least then an icon at /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/wine.xpm would provide the necessary feature.

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

It was easy to reproduce. I can confirm this bug.

[willz06jw (willz06jw)]

I also see this as a serious bug -- one of the main ways to get people on ubuntu is letting them know that they can run windows programs.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

The icon referred to in the desktop files is from the source package: wine-0.9.34.tar.bz2/programs/winemenubuilder/wine.xpm

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Still valid in Gutsy!

[Jakson Alves de Aquino (jaksonaquino)]

This bug is not visible for users of Kubuntu because KDE themes include an icon for wine. For Gnome menu, I have put a copy of wine.xpm at usr/local/share/pixmaps.xpm.

I didn't test it myself, but it seems that the definitive solution would be the addition of two lines to the "install" rule of debian/rules of wine source package:

   mkdir $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/pixmaps
   cp -f $(CURDIR)/programs/winemenubuilder/wine.xpm $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/share/pixmaps

I'm using gutsy.

[Loye Young (loyeyoung)]

On Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:16:11 pm Jakson Alves de Aquino wrote:
> I didn't test it myself, but it seems that the definitive solution would
> be the addition of two lines to the "install" rule of debian/rules of
> wine source package:

I suggest instead the freedesktop.org-compliant solution of creating a
menu-method for wine. See the man page for the "menu" package.

[Loye Young (loyeyoung)]

On Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:39:20 pm Loye Young wrote:
> I suggest instead the freedesktop.org-compliant solution of creating a
> menu-method for wine. See the man page for the "menu" package.

My suggestion doesn't make sense. The bug is about the icon, not the menu. I
didn't read the original post carefully enough.

My bad. Please ignore.

[Max (maxter)]

confirmed in gutsy, updated from feisty

[Alec Wright (alecjw)]

Confirmed, again in gutsy. Can someone set a priority and (perhpas) milestone for this?
I recommend low importance, and a milestone of either gutsy (because it's so easy to fix, just package a .xpm file) or hardy (because it's so unimportant, and gutsy release is only 21 days from now)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Icons have been fixed in Gutsy. The package now contains .svg files for all the icons I have.