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Bug 80014 - OpenOffice doesn't install .desktop files when using neither GNOME nor KDE (f.i. Xfce4)
Summary: OpenOffice doesn't install .desktop files when using neither GNOME nor KDE (f...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Office Team
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Reported: 2005-01-29 18:06 UTC by Sam
Modified: 2005-01-30 02:13 UTC (History)
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Description Sam 2005-01-29 18:06:35 UTC 
The openoffice-1.1.4.ebuild installs .desktop files only when USE=gnome or USE=kde is set. Other freedesktop compliant DE's like XFCE-4 now can't use .desktop files. 
I'm not sure how the other things are installed (differently..?) when not having USE=gnome of USE=is set. But I definitely think .desktop should be installed into some standard location like /usr/share/applications/

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-gnome -kde"
2. emerge openoffice
(3. xfce4-appfinder #and see for yourself)
Actual Results:  
No .desktop files are installed, contraty to the freedesktop standard.

Expected Results:  
Install the .desktop file.
Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-29 20:05:53 UTC 
sam if you could work out a patch and attach it we would really appreciate it.
Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-30 02:13:04 UTC 
Vanilla OpenOffice.org does not provide Freedesktop-compatible .desktop-files, this an upstream problem (which will be solved with 2.0). If you want to have better desktop integration use openoffice-ximian instead.