Ekiga menu does not appear in KDE, XFCE

[otakuj462]

Binary package hint: ekiga

When I installed Ekiga on Kubuntu 9.04, it does not appear in the default KDE4 application launcher. When I type in the launcher to search for the string "Ekiga", it also does not find it. It is installed on my system, though, as I can launch it from the command line.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ekiga
Package: ekiga 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
SourcePackage: ekiga
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[otakuj462 (otakuj462)]

It seems to be there now.
Please hold off on looking into this until I can present more detailed information.

[otakuj462 (otakuj462)]

OK, I can confirm this now. The icon I was looking at was the Ekiga icon in the system tray. There is no Ekiga icon in the KDE4 menu.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

I can also confirm it.

The reason for this bug is ubuntu_desktop-file-onlyshowin.patch which adds the following line to ekiga.desktop:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Mobile

I'm not sure what this patch is good for but it should at least be changed to:
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;Mobile;

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

The OnlyShowIn patch has been introduced in 2.0.12-0ubuntu3:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15747154/ekiga_2.0.12-0ubuntu2_2.0.12-0ubuntu3.diff.gz

As the changelog doesn't really mention a reason i'm going to ask Steve Kowalik who uploaded the package.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

ekiga (3.2.0-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/ubuntu_desktop-file-onlyshowin.patch: Dropped, was only
    needed for Ubuntu Mobile in Hardy, and has caused other issues.
    (LP: #376077)
  * Replace libpt2.6.1-dev with libpt-dev in the Build-Depends.

 -- Steve Kowalik < <email address hidden>> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:49:00 +1000

Gah, I got the bug number wrong ....