Bug#444651: Processed: Reopening #444651: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key: Actions
On 08/12/2007, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Raphael <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 08/12/2007, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> >> Could you point me to an example package?
>
> > Plenty of them:
> > $grep -lr 'Actions=' /usr/share/app-install/desktop/
> > /usr/share/applications/kde/ /usr/share/applications/
> > /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/ | sort -u | xargs -r egrep
> > '^Type='
>
> [...]
>
> Well, it would have been nice if you could have given me a package, given
> that many of the files you list are in packages for which lintian doesn't
> give the warning that you're complaining about. It made it hard to find
> specific examples of the problem that you're reporting.
Removing app-install-data:
$grep -lr 'Actions=' /usr/share/applications/kde/
/usr/share/applications/ /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/ |
sort -u | xargs -r egrep -l '^Type=' | xargs -r dpkg -S | sort -u |
cut -d: -f1 | sort -u
d3lphin
kcometen3
kdebase-bin
kscreensaver
kscreensaver-xsavers
ktux
>
> Here, though, is a good example:
>
> > /usr/share/applications/kde/d3lphin.desktop:Type=Application
>
> Some searching turns up the discussion at:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-August/006899.html
>
> which reveals that Actions is apparently a KDE-specific feature that isn't
> documented in the current standard but should be added in a newer version.
>
> Sorry about this. I personally don't use *.desktop files, so we get
> caught between a rock and a hard place when people push them as an
> improvement over the menu system, and then the standard to which people
> point me doesn't actually reflect reality. It would have been great if
> the desktop folks would have written up what the real standard is so that
> we could code to it, but that appears to not be available, so everyone has
> to suffer through trying to figure out exactly what parts of the standard
> are real and what parts KDE has done its own thing with.
>
> I'll add Actions to the KDE-specific key section of the check.
>
> So. Is there anything else that KDE does differently with the *.desktop
> standard from everyone else that we need to take into account? (Like the
> slew of Category errors from app-install-data, for example, from using
> categories that really aren't valid according to the current standard?)
Checking the generated report for
desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key[1] shows some common extra entries
like: Patterns, PreferredItems, PreferredGroups
GNOME-related apps seem to often use MultipleArgs.
But I can't really help with those because I really don't know what
they are used for.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdesktop-entry-contains-unknown-key.html
Sincerely,
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