Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

[Ryan Duan <duanpanda@gmail.com>]

I said
> I don't have any idea why the "Hidden=true" entry was generated, but it doesn't matter now.

I guess the reason is:
maybe after I reinstalled Debian, I copied all the user files to the
new system, something that contained configurations of LibreOffice
disturbed newly installed OpenOffice.org, so it behaves abnormally.

2012/8/29, Ryan Duan <duanpanda@gmail.com>:
> 2012/8/29, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:41:52 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Camaleón!
>>
>> You're welcome but please, keep your replies at the bottom :-)
>>
>>> 2012/8/29 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:43:25 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     I use Debian squeeze, now it cannot find OpenOffice.org-Impress to
>>>>> open odp and ppt files, but Impress does have been installed, I can
>>>>> use command "ooffice -impress" to open it.
>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>> sm01@stt008:~$ whereis ooimpress
>>>> ooimpress: /usr/bin/ooimpress /usr/share/man/man1/ooimpress.1.gz
>>>>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>> If file association is what fails, you can manaully instruct your DE
>>>> (GNOME?) for opening the files (e.g., ".odp" and ".ppt") with OOo
>>>> Impress.
>>
>>>     To manually create file association or create menu entry is not my
>>> goal. I know it can solve the cannot-open-problem, but what I really
>>> want to know is where GNOME configures the file associations and menu
>>> entries, why it cannot list OOo Impress in the "installed applications"
>>> list.
>>
>> In GNOME2 you can edit the menu using Alacarte (right-click over the main
>> menu button and select "Menu edit". From there you can add/rename/remove
>> the desired entries.
>>
>> This can be also done manually by creating the corresponding ".desktop"
>> file in "/usr/share/applications/ooo-impress.desktop" (this is a system
>> wide entry available for all your system users).
>>
>
> Camaleón, thank you for your heuristic answer! I have found the root
> reason to the problem.
>     I thought some user local .desktop files shadowed the one in
> /usr/share/applications/.  Finally, I found it:
> ~/.local/share/applications/openoffice.org-impress.desktop.  This file
> was generated from the system-wide one in /usr/share/applications/ as
> the template.  I compared the two files and saw the line order was
> different, further more, the problem was due to the additional entry
> "Hidden=true"!  After I deleted this entry, everything was fine.
> Removing the whole file also works.  I don't have any idea why the
> "Hidden=true" entry was generated, but it doesn't matter now.
>     Thank you again!
>
> Best wishes,
> Ryan
>