Bug#238094: kicker: Name not shown unless file has .desktop extension
Package: kicker
Version: 4:3.2.1-1
Severity: minor
Icons copied to the kicker toolbar show a name or description on mouseover --
but only if the file has the .desktop extension. So for instance if you have
mozilla firefox, mouseover will show the full pathname unless the file
~.kde/share/apps/kicker/Firefox has the .desktop extension. As normal usage
is to populate kicker by dragging files from the desktop, and these desktop
icons often don't have the .desktop extension, mouseover often ends up
showing the full pathname.
I don't see any reason to keep this behavior; files in ~.kde/share/apps/kicker
are .desktop files by default and it would be nice to have the icons honor
the name when the user enters a name in the Properties | Application menu.
This is a good example of a bug that is completely opaque to a newbie, and
makes the interface seem geeky -- why would an icon show the whole path?
What would be useful is if the whole path could show inside the Properties
dialogue -- that's where the user could learn how the system works.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kicker depends on:
ii kdebase-data 4:3.2.1-1 KDE Base (shared data)
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.1-1 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-6 client library to control the FAM
hi libgcc1 1:3.3.3-1 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkonq4 4:3.2.1-1 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management
hi libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxtst6 4.3.0-5 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibs 4.3.0-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
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