One problematic part in Debian Edu, is the GUI packages missing .desktop file, causing the provided program not to show up in the KDE, Gnome and LXDE menus (but only in the Debian submenu in KDE).
To detect this problem, I wrote a small tool many years ago to report it for the running system. I just installed our KDE, Gnome and LXDE environment in a chroot, and ran it. This is the result: root@workstation:/# time /usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/missing-desktop-file package menu got menu but no desktop file package aptitude got menu but no desktop file package bash got menu but no desktop file package bc got menu but no desktop file package dash got menu but no desktop file package dc got menu but no desktop file package ddccontrol got menu but no desktop file package deborphan got menu but no desktop file package dia-gnome got menu but no desktop file package evince got menu but no desktop file package gdb got menu but no desktop file package gnuchess got menu but no desktop file package gnugo got menu but no desktop file package gnuplot-nox got menu but no desktop file package guile-1.8 got menu but no desktop file package heirloom-mailx got menu but no desktop file package info got menu but no desktop file package lmms-common got menu but no desktop file package nano got menu but no desktop file package ncftp got menu but no desktop file package planner got menu but no desktop file package procps got menu but no desktop file package psmisc got menu but no desktop file package ruby1.8 got menu but no desktop file package ruby1.9.1 got menu but no desktop file package sane got menu but no desktop file package stk got menu but no desktop file package tasksel got menu but no desktop file package tcl8.4 got menu but no desktop file package tcl8.5 got menu but no desktop file package texlive-base got menu but no desktop file package tilp2 got menu but no desktop file package timidity got menu but no desktop file package tk8.4 got menu but no desktop file package tk8.5 got menu but no desktop file package wordnet-gui got menu but no desktop file package x11-apps got menu but no desktop file package x11-utils got menu but no desktop file package x11-xserver-utils got menu but no desktop file package xdrawchem got menu but no desktop file package xjig got menu but no desktop file package xplanet got menu but no desktop file package xsok got menu but no desktop file real 0m20.491s user 0m7.000s sys 0m1.328s root@workstation:/# Not all of these should really show up in the KDE, Gnome and LXDE menu, but some of them should be fixed. I've reported these bug repots to ask for .desktop files. Should we ask for more? gnuchess #708628 gnugo #708627 planner #708580 (fixed) wordnet-gui #708583 (fixed) xdrawchem #708578 xjig #708581 The dia and lmms isse is as far as I know a messed up package where the menu and the .desktop files are in different packages. I have not tracked it down and reported anthing to BTS, as it isirrelevant for our need to get entries in the KDE, Gnome and LXDE menus. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
