creating launcher from menu fails for libreoffice applications

[muzzol]

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

# apt-cache policy xfce4-panel
xfce4-panel:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.8.6-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
     4.8.6-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages

when I drag and drop any launcher from application menu it creates a desktop launcher without problems except for libreoffice applications.

it creates a broken link in my desktop.

the only difference between libreoffice apps and the rest is that launchers in

    /usr/share/applications

are soft links pointing to

   ../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg

and xfce menu don't like that

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Yes, I can reproduce that, but I think it's a bug in xfdesktop4, the panel doesn't have any problem to create launchers with these files.

[muzzol (muzzol)]

I see, sorry for the confusion.

I can see that there's another soft link in /usr/share/applications but is pointing to an absolute path:

   ubuntu-nvidia-settings.desktop -> /etc/alternatives/i386-linux-gnu_nvidia_desktop

maybe will be enough with changing relative to absolute paths to resolv this bug.

or copy destination file instead of link

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

When the .desktop is a symlink, the drag'n'drop from the panel to Thunar/Xfdesktop4 fails:

% ls -al /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-base.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Sep 11 02:18 /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-base.desktop -> ../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/base.desktop

After d'n'd:

% ls -al libreoffice-base.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mrpouit mrpouit 44 Oct 27 00:15 libreoffice-base.desktop -> ../../lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/base.desktop

It's fine with absolute symlinks, but relative symlinks like in the file above don't work.

Thanks.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Affects all drop targets other than xfce4-panel. Reassigning to garcon.