Bug 173469

Summary:	sci-misc/boinc creates broken desktop entry
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jakub Moc (RETIRED) <jakub>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) <scarabeus>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	linuxblues, myckel, sci
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-05 14:31:20 UTC

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

<snip>
Note that at least one Main Category must be included in the desktop entry's list of categories.
</snip>

-make_desktop_entry boinc_gui BOINC boinc Science /var/lib/boinc
+make_desktop_entry boinc_gui BOINC boinc "Education;Science" /var/lib/boinc

Comment 1 Linux Blues 2008-03-11 12:23:07 UTC

Well, it tries to run boing_gui from $HOME when it should run it from $RUNTIMEDIR (according to /etc/conf.d/boinc)

$ alias bnc
alias bnc='cd $HOME/.boinc/ && boinc_gui && cd $HOME'


My RUNTIMEDIR is $HOME/.boinc/ as you can see and my alias works like a charm.

So /usr/share/applications/boinc_gui-boinc.desktop should be patched including cd $RUNTIMEDIR before running boinc_gui and it works.

Comment 2 Myckel Habets 2008-09-07 08:45:48 UTC

I've posted a new ebuild for 6.2.15 that fixes this bug. You need to delete the menu cache ($home/.cache/xfce4/desktop) in xfce4, as it doesn't seem to update by itself.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236931

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-09 15:04:41 UTC

# ChangeLog for sci-misc/boinc
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-misc/boinc/ChangeLog,v 1.45 2009/01/02 20:40:21 cryos Exp $

  02 Jan 2009; Marcus D. Hanwell <cryos@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
  Removed myself as maintainer.

Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-21 15:22:51 UTC

Fixed in the 6.2.15 and laters.