** Description changed: Impact ------ + Cinnamon (and the less popular EDE and LXQt) desktops are not recognized by desktop-file-validate in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS. + This is a problem because the very popular Travis service for continuous + integration (CI) on platforms like Github still uses 12.04 LTS. Travis + offers a beta for 14.04 LTS. This caused this pull request to fail its + CI check: + https://travis-ci.org/zdohnal/system-config-printer/builds/222023750 Test Case --------- + 1. Save the following lines in a file named calc.desktop + + [Desktop Entry] + Name=Calculator + Exec=gnome-calculator + Icon=accessories-calculator + Type=Application + OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE; + Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Calculator; + + 2. Run + desktop-file-validate calc.desktop + + The command should complete with no error message. + + A failure would look something like: + calc.desktop: error: value "Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;" for key "OnlyShowIn" in group "Desktop Entry" contains an unregistered value "Cinnamon"; values extending the format should start with "X-" Regression Potential --------------------- + This only adds a few entries to the list of registered desktop environments. + + This change is backported from desktop-file-utils 0.23 which is in + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
** Changed in: desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to desktop-file-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693089 Title: Cinnamon is not a recognized Desktop Environment before Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gnome-desktop3 source package in Precise: New Bug description: Impact ------ Cinnamon (and the less popular EDE and LXQt) desktops are not recognized by desktop-file-validate in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 14.04 LTS. This is a problem because the very popular Travis service for continuous integration (CI) on platforms like Github still uses 12.04 LTS. Travis offers a beta for 14.04 LTS. This caused this pull request to fail its CI check: https://travis-ci.org/zdohnal/system-config-printer/builds/222023750 Test Case --------- 1. Save the following lines in a file named calc.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Calculator Exec=gnome-calculator Icon=accessories-calculator Type=Application OnlyShowIn=Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE; Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Calculator; 2. Run desktop-file-validate calc.desktop The command should complete with no error message. A failure would look something like: calc.desktop: error: value "Cinnamon;LXQt;EDE;" for key "OnlyShowIn" in group "Desktop Entry" contains an unregistered value "Cinnamon"; values extending the format should start with "X-" Regression Potential --------------------- This only adds a few entries to the list of registered desktop environments. This change is backported from desktop-file-utils 0.23 which is in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/+bug/1693089/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp