Bug 102207 – xmms icon and entry does not appear in gnome menu due to character set mismatch and icon path error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Lance Lucas 2005-08-12 02:09:48 UTC]

Within Gnome 2.10, the entry & icon for XMMS does not appear under Applications
-> Sound & Video as it should.  Switching 'Encoding=Legacy-Mixed' to
'Encoding=UTF-8' within /usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop caused the entry to
appear, sans icon.   Changing 'Icon=mini/xmms_mini.xpm' to its full path of
'Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/mini/xmms_mini.xpm' caused the icon to appear, as well.
 I don't know what this would do on a non UTF-8 machine.  Possibly the bug
doesn't exist on them anyways.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  emerge xmms
2.  start gnome
3.  frantically search for nonexistant icon

Actual Results:  
search failed, no xmms icon :(

Expected Results:  
added/created a functonal xmms.desktop file

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-morph7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-morph7 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
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, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
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 X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts
browserplugin bzip2 cd cdr crypt css cups curl dbus divx4linux dv dvd dvdread
eds emboss encode esd fam fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java
javascript jikes jpeg ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss
pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png posix python quicktime readline sdl spell sse
sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode
usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

'emerge -pv xmms':
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15  -3dnow +alsa +arts -directfb +esd
+flac -jack -lirc +mad +mikmod +mmx +mp3 +nls +oss -sndfile +vorbis 0 kB

[Comment 1 Lance Lucas 2005-08-12 02:11:23 UTC]

Created attachment 65739 [details, diff]
changes to xmms.desktop which fix bug on my system

dunno what behavior this will cause on a non-UTF8 system, dunno if this
will/would work for anyone else besides me :)

[Comment 2 Akos Ladanyi 2005-08-24 09:17:59 UTC]

Note that desktop-file-validate reports other errors too.

[Comment 3 Lance Lucas 2005-09-30 03:31:53 UTC]

Created attachment 69546 [details, diff]
cleanups to make desktop-file-validate happier

makes icon appear in gnome menus, cleans up errors reported by
desktop-file-validate.	these remain on my system:

llucas@clemens ~ $ desktop-file-validate
/usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop.ne w
/usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop.new: error: value for key "Comment[ca]"
con tains invalid UTF-8 characters, even though the encoding is UTF-8
/usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop.new: error: value for key "Comment[cs]"
con tains invalid UTF-8 characters, even though the encoding is UTF-8
/usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop.new: error: value for key "Comment[th]"
con tains invalid UTF-8 characters, even though the encoding is UTF-8
/usr/share/applications/xmms.desktop.new: error: value for key "Comment[zh_TW]"
contains invalid UTF-8 characters, even though the encoding is UTF-8

[Comment 4 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-11-05 19:19:28 UTC]

fixed in cvs.

[Comment 5 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-11-05 19:19:41 UTC]

fixed in cvs.