Duplicate Imagemagick entries on menu

[David Pearson]

Duplicate entries for Imagemagick on Whisker menu.. One with an icon, the other without.. Neither launches the program.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-7.22-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.367
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Feb 25 10:36:51 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha i386 (20160224)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: imagemagick
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1549732

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nairwolf (nairwolf)]

This bug is also present on the Xubuntu Xenial Beta 1 (amd64)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

imagemagick can be started with the command /usr/bin/display-im6. The settings in Xubuntu's Whisker menu are wrong and nothing to do with the application itself.

Will reassign bug to xubuntu-default -settings.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

The problem is that imagemagick has two desktop files. There is the Q8 default version, and the Q16 version.

In Debian, the Q16 desktop file has been deleted in the new version of imagemagick currently sitting in experimental.

This will leave only one entry in the menu. The full program is always available on the command line.

We should probably follow this in Ubuntu.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

Actually, the extra desktop file display-im6.desktop (imagemagick package) contains an executable which is just a symlink to the same binary as the display-im6.q16.desktop (imagemagick-6.q16 package).

The icon doesn't show because there is a Spelling error "Icon: display-im6.Q16" instead of "Icon: display-im6.q16", but even if this was fixed, a link to the icon in the imagemagick-6.q16 package is missing.

As they both point at the same binary (duplicate), I have altered the imagemagick.install file so that the desktop file with the missing icon is not installed.

Please see Bug #1550210 for the patch that fixes both this bug and that bug.

[Ross Gammon (rosco2)]

OK. We can fix the duplicate menu thing ourselves, by updating ubuntustudio-menu. I have pushed a fix to the source bzr branch for that.

On Bug #1550210, I will reduce the patch down to just fixing the execution problem by settining Terminal=true in the desktop file. Hopefully it will be easier to find a sponsor then.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntustudio-menu - 0.25

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ubuntustudio-menu (0.25) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Krytarik Raido ]
  * Fix Ubuntu Studio menu items up a bit.

 -- Kaj Ailomaa <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:17:40 +0200

[Or Schiro (orschiro)]

Dear all,

The bug still exists in Ubuntu 16.04.

[warren (wkclemmons)]

This bug also effects Ubuntu 15.10 wily 4.2.0-36-generic.

[Jb (jebsolutions)]

This bug still exists in Lubuntu 16.10 daily image dated 2016-Aug-14.

[ineuw (ineuw)]

I also have a problem with ImageMagick in Menulibre. It installs two menu entries in the Graphics section, but they are both hidden. Changing the Menulibre to expose the shortcut, does not work. I think that the entries are missing some category assignements.

[Len Ovens (len-ovenwerks)]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, ineuw wrote:

> I also have a problem with ImageMagick in Menulibre. It installs two
> menu entries in the Graphics section, but they are both hidden. Changing
> the Menulibre to expose the shortcut, does not work. I think that the
> entries are missing some category assignements.

It is not recomended to use Menulibre as it will not allow your user to
see menu updates such as a fix for this problem. So far as I know
Menulibre also uses the stock xfce *menu file which is broken and not used
in ubuntustudio. XFCE are not interested in fixing this file and have
marked it as not a bug.

They are hidden because they do not work. They are installed if we want
them or not by the ImageMagick package which is a depend of another
package we do want. But the menu entrys don't work so we have hidden them
so as not to break package upgrading.

--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net

[ineuw (ineuw)]

Thanks for the info. It's much appreciated. I will pursue the issue with xfce.

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

This hasn't been fixed in any released package for Ubuntu. It might be fixed in imagemagick 8:6.9.6.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2, which is in zesty-proposed.

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

Fixed in Zesty with imagemagick (8:6.9.6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1) merged from Debian unstable (LP: #1645406) , which included this change:

imagemagick (8:6.9.2.10+dfsg-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Drop imagemagick binary package. Paving the way to multiple
  channel depth binaries and HDRI. Fix also multi-arch problems
  (Closes: #761836, #810591, #772603).
  * Fix desktop file (Closes: #812481).
  * Simplify debian/rules
  * Fix a mistake for installing config files.

 -- Bastien Roucariès <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:50:09 +0100

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

Still having this problem with latest LTS.

Lubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit up-to-date

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

imagemagick-6.q16_6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb Zesty (17.04) package contains one desktop file with the following line:

Exec=/usr/bin/display-im6.q16 -nostdin %F

In my 16.04 LTS I tried (as possible work-around):

$ /usr/bin/display-im6 -nostdin
display-im6: unrecognized option `-nostdin' @ error/display.c/DisplayImageCommand/1426.

Not working!

It works only seeting Terminal=true as suggested at #8
( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1549732/comments/8 )

But not nice having an open terminal...

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

This is still a problem in the current xenial mythbuntu 16.04.3 release candidate images. Nominating for xenial.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[mickEDK (mickedk)]

Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Bug still present at April 2nd 2019

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-life on April 29, 2021 so closing xenial tasks.