Bug 288914 – dev-python/pyxdg-0.17-r1 does not respect XDG_MENU_PREFIX

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sergey Ilinykh 2009-10-13 18:32:50 UTC]

since gnome-menus-2.26 installs applications.menu with prefix "gnome-" pyxdg can't find this file anymore.

i attach patch which solves the problem


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sergey Ilinykh 2009-10-13 18:33:45 UTC]

Created attachment 206991 [details, diff]
pyxdg-gnome.patch

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-10-17 23:45:28 UTC]

GNOME team: Can you verify this problem?

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2009-10-18 01:57:18 UTC]

No. pyxdg should be honoring the XDG_MENU_PREFIX environment variable and look for the applications menu file based on that, as per the specification.
However I haven't looked in-depth what pyxdg is doing with that applications.menu file it finds while ignoring XDG_MENU_PREFIX

[Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2009-10-18 01:58:14 UTC]

ah, it's the default if something provided doesn't exist. I think the default it checks for should be ${XDG_MENU_PREFIX}applications.menu then

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-18 10:43:22 UTC]

It indeed looks like pyxdg doesn't actually respect the spec, there is no occurence of XDG_MENU_PREFIX in it's files afaics. This is not a problem specific to gnome as kde does the same, changing cc to fdo to let every othere DE maintainers know.

[Comment 6 Sergey Ilinykh 2009-10-18 16:56:01 UTC]

ok, i've put proper patched version to my overlay
http://rion-overlay.googlecode.com/hg/dev-python/pyxdg/

[Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-10-18 17:05:40 UTC]

even simpler, use:
prefix = os.environ.get('XDG_MENU_PREFIX', '')

[Comment 8 Sergey Ilinykh 2009-10-18 17:11:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> even simpler, use:
> prefix = os.environ.get('XDG_MENU_PREFIX', '')
> 

thx. fixed =)

[Comment 9 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-10-18 18:01:38 UTC]

Fixed in dev-python/pyxdg-0.17-r2.