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Bug#238094: marked as done (kicker: Name not shown unless file has .desktop extension)

Your message dated Fri, 19 May 2006 10:45:31 +0200
with message-id <20060519084531.GA14697@mad.intersec.fr>
and subject line kicker: Name not shown unless file has .desktop extension
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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

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 4:3.5.0

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:50:05AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
> 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.

  works that way in kde 3.5

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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