In XFCE, abiword does not show up in menu, in Office submenu, there is an entry "Word Processor" (abiword used to be listed as word processor), but the entry is (ximian-) OpenOffice Writer. Interestingly, abiword is listed in GNOME office menu, so there are two enetries with the same name there ("Word Processor"). Perhaps XFCE is confused when two entries have the same name (just a guess). My system is fully uo-to-date with current stable. I had the same behavior with previous version of Abiword. Emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-ck6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla /defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/ share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/ control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.inform atik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aac aalib alsa apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip 2 cdparanoia cdr cjk cpudetection crypt cups curl custom-cflags dbus dts dv dvb edl eds emboss encode fam fbcon fbdev fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran fpx gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gnome gpm graphviz g streamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses network new- login nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png python quic ktime readline real rtc sdl slang spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fon ts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GN U kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
just to add to this the .desktop entry for abiword the "name" is listed as "Word Processor", if you want to see if this is a problem with duplicate name change the name and see if its all better. also the icon is install in the wrong folder. it is install in /usr/share/icons/ for xfce to like it, it need to be in /usr/share/pixmaps/
Good idea about changing the .desktop file (/usr/share/applications/abiword.desktop), changing Name to something different from "Word Processor" fixes the problem and after this Abiword appears in the menu. So this really is the issue of two aplication having the same name. Another problem is the icon. After abiword appears in the menu, it dies not have an icon, copying an icon from /usr/share/icons/ to /usr/share/pixmap does not solve the problem. BTW, I think that people responsible for abiword should also watch this bug, since it is possible that this is problem on abiword's side too. Can someone add them?
SInce no one added abiword to this bug as I requested, I am adding gnome-office@gentoo.org into CC, I think they are responsible for abiword ebuild.
I'm not sure what abiword version this is, but currently (2.4.5) abiword seems to be doing the right thing (xdg spec wise) in it's .desktop . So I guess this is no longer an issue ?
(In reply to comment #4) > I'm not sure what abiword version this is, but currently (2.4.5) abiword seems > to be doing the right thing (xdg spec wise) in it's .desktop . So I guess this > is no longer an issue ? > You are right, with current versions both abiword and openoffice writer apper propely in XFCE menu. Closing this bug.
