kubuntu-desktop missing "KDE" in description

[Lars Noodén]

Binary package hint: kdesktop

Updated: This issue is about confusion due to not being able to find the kubuntu-desktop package by searching for KDE.

When I install the KDE4 version of Hardy, and then add KDE3.5.x after the fact,
the menu item 'system settings' is missing from the K menu
The old menu has
    systemsettings -caption "%c" %i %m

This was from kubuntu as installed from kubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso plus recent updates.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for filing this bug. How did you install kde 3? Did you use kubuntu-desktop or another metapackage? Are you looking for/expecting system settings from KDE 3 or 4 to be in the menu?

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

I installed kde3 with something like
              apt-get install kdesktop

I am expecting KDE3 system settings to be in the menu, since it is KDE 3.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

"kdesktop" is just the program that displays the desktop wallpaper and icons. By installing it you got a basic KDE desktop through dependencies, but did not get all the software KDE or Kubuntu ships. If you want a complete Kubuntu KDE3 desktop, including system settings, please install kubuntu-desktop. If you just want to add system settings to what you have now, install kde-systemsettings. I am closing this report since this is not a bug.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Ok. I've just run through the whole thing on a fresh system. The actual installation process that created the problem was
   apt-get install kdesktop kdebase

However, the problem is with the package description for kubuntu-desktop

Can the string KDE be added to the description for Kubuntu-desktop? e.g.

  "Kubuntu's KDE desktop system"

or something similar.

Yes. The complete Kubuntu KDE 3.x desktop is what I was looking for. So this bug is not with kdesktop or kdebase, but with the package descriptions.

There are too many KDE apps to rummage through manually. [1] So the description and other metadata must help. Searching with apt-cache[2] helps me find kubuntu-kde4-desktop, edubuntu-desktop-kde, and kdesktop, but not the kubuntu-desktop (see below)

 $ apt-cache search kubuntu-desktop
 kubuntu-desktop - Kubuntu desktop system

====

[1]
 $ apt-cache search kde |sort|wc -l
 1589

[2]
 apt-cache search kde |grep desktop|sort
 amor - a KDE creature for your desktop
 amor-kde4 - a KDE creature for your desktop
 chemical-mime-data - chemical MIME and file type support for desktops
 desktop-base - common files for the Debian Desktop
 desktop-effects-kde - compiz setup tool for KDE
 desktop-profiles - framework for setting up desktop profiles
 edubuntu-addon-kde - Edubuntu add-on packages for the KDE desktop
 edubuntu-desktop-kde - edubuntu desktop system with KDE desktop
 education-desktop-kde - DebianEdu KDE desktop applications
 education-desktop-other - DebianEdu desktop applications, non-GNOME- and non-KDE-specific
 extragear-plasma-data - extras for the desktop and panel user interface tool for KDE4 - data
 extragear-plasma - extras for the desktop and panel user interface tool for KDE4
 gpe-appmgr - application manager for GPE desktop
 jockey-kde - KDE user interface and desktop integration for driver management
 kdesktop - miscellaneous binaries and files for the KDE desktop
 kdiamond-kde4 - A three-in-a-row game for the KDE 4 desktop
 kerry - a KDE frontend for the Beagle desktop search daemon
 kicker - desktop panel for KDE
 kopete-plugin-desklist - Kopete plugin which displays online contacts on desktop
 kpager - desktop pager for KDE
 krecordmydesktop - kde frontend to recordmydesktop
 krusader - twin-panel (commander-style) file manager for KDE (and other desktops)
 kstars-data - data files for KStars desktop planetarium
 kstars-data-kde4 - data files for KStars desktop planetarium
 kstars - desktop planetarium for KDE
 kstars-kde4 - desktop planetarium for KDE 4
 kubuntu-kde4-desktop - Kubuntu desktop system
 libplasma1 - library for the plasma KDE 4 desktop
 libplasma-dev - development files for the plasma KDE 4 desktop
 matchbox-desktop - desktop application launcher for resource-limited systems
 matchbox-desktop-dev - desktop application launcher [development files]
 qalculate-kde - Powerful and easy to use desktop calculator - KDE version
 stalonetray - Standalone freedesktop.org and KDE systray implementation
 trayer - lightweight GTK2-based systray for UNIX desktop

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

The problem is with the descriptive metadata in the package kubuntu-desktop, not kdesktop as originally reported

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This debdiff should fix the bug.

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Thanks.

Should the short description also be changed from "Kubuntu desktop system" to "Kubuntu's KDE desktop system? Or is the debdiff above enough to cause kubuntu-desktop to turn up in output from 'apt-cache search kde" ?

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

apt-cache will search the full description, so the debdiff will fix that.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Jonathan: can you please take a look at it?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kubuntu-meta - 1.76

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kubuntu-meta (1.76) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Jonathan Thomas ]
  * Change the package description to clarify that this package will
    install a full KDE desktop, closes LP: #235121

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Update update.cfg for intrepid

 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Thur, 29 May 2008 19:36:23 -0500