can't find cinnamon settings and other elements of control panel

[GT]

Hello,
synapse on linux mint 17.1 and cinnamon 2.4.5 cannot find settings (cinnamon-settings) and its submenus, which is possible to find in cinnamon standard menu

[Hasan Yavuz Özderya (hyozd)]

When I start synapse from the command line I get a bunch of (~20 something) these errors:

[WARN 13:13:39.273115] [desktop-file-service:72] X-Cinnamon is not understood

Could this be related to the `OnlyShowIn=X-Cinnamon` option in .desktop files?

[Hasan Yavuz Özderya (hyozd)]

I've tried disabling `OnlyShowIn=X-Cinnamon` in one of the .desktop files and it appeared in synapse results.

[GT (gio-gda31)]

Same for me.
So, what should the solution be? Remove the line in all of the .desktop files? Or let synapse understand what that line means?

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Those occurrences of "OnlyShowIn=X-Cinnamon" should be "OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon"

[GT (gio-gda31)]

It doesn't work even using "OnlyShownIn=Cinnamon;" but it does removing the whole line

[Matthew Spraggs (matthew-spraggs)]

I've managed to figure out how to patch this in version 0.2.99.2. The file I needed to change was src/core/desktop-file-service.vala, where I added some conditions to handle the x-cinnamon string. I've attached the associated patch. If you're building from source, this should help you get the settings applications working.